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Record Nr.

UNISA996248175703316

Autore

Saunders Thomas J

Titolo

Hollywood in Berlin [[electronic resource] ] : American cinema and Weimar, Germany / / Thomas J. Saunders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1994

ISBN

0-520-91416-3

0-585-07922-6

Edizione

[1 frontisp., Reprint 2020]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 332 p. ) : ill. ;

Collana

Weimar and now ; ; 6

Disciplina

791.43/0943

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Germany - History

Motion pictures, American - Germany - Influence

Motion pictures, German - United States - Influence

National characteristics, American, in motion pictures

National characteristics, German, in motion pictures

Motion pictures - History - Germany

Motion pictures, American - Influence - Germany

Motion pictures, German - Influence - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-325) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. THE SETTING: WEIMAR GERMANY AND THE MOTION PICTURE -- CHAPTER 2. GERMAN-AMERICAN FILM RELATIONS: COMPETITION AND COOPERATION -- CHAPTER 3. HOLLYWOOD IN BERLIN: THE INITIATION, 1921-1923 -- CHAPTER 4. THE HOLLYWOOD INVASION: AMERIKANISMUS AND AMERIKAMÛDIGKEIT -- CHAPTER 5. EXCURSUS: POPULAR CULTURE AND AMERICAN HEGEMONY -- CHAPTER 6. COMIC REDEMPTION: THE SLAPSTICK SYNTHESIS -- CHAPTER 7. GERMAN-AMERICAN PRODUCTION IN HOLLYWOOD AND THE MEANING OF NATIONAL CINEMA -- CHAPTER 8. THE COMING OF SOUND AND THE WANING OF AMERICA -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX