02779nam 22005773u 450 991078024720332120230607214108.00-520-93635-31-59734-573-3(CKB)111087027178650(EBL)222985(OCoLC)475926835(SSID)ssj0000134844(PQKBManifestationID)11162621(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000134844(PQKBWorkID)10055383(PQKB)11742179(MiAaPQ)EBC222985(EXLCZ)9911108702717865020130418d2002|||| u|| |engtxtccrThe dark mirror[electronic resource] German cinema between Hitler and HollywoodBerkeley University of California Press20021 online resource (339 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-23310-7 Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Dark Mirror; 1 Sounds of Silence Nazi Cinema and the Quest for a National Culture Industry; 2 Incorporating the Underground Curtis Bernhardt's The Tunnel; 3 Engendering Mass Culture: Zarah Leander and the Economy of Desire; 4 Siegfried Rides Again: Nazi Westerns and Modernity; 5 Wagner at Warner's: German Sounds and Hollywood Studio Visions; 6 Berlin Noir: Robert Siodmak's Hollywood; 7 Pianos, Priests, and Popular Culture: Sirk, Lang, and the Legacy of American Populism; 8 Isolde Resurrected: Curtis Bernhardt's Interrupted MelodyEpilogue: "Talking about Germany" Notes; IndexLutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas--Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's--in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930's until the mid 1950's, showing how Nazi filmmakers appropriated Hollywood conventions and how German film exiles reworked German cultural material in their efforts to find a working base in the Hollywood studio system.GermansGermans - California - Los AngelesMotion picture producers and directorsMotion picturesMotion pictures-- Germany-- HistoryGermans.Germans - California - Los Angeles.Motion picture producers and directors.Motion pictures.Motion pictures-- Germany-- History.791.43/0943Koepnick Lutz P942074AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910780247203321The dark mirror3805202UNINA