LEADER 02994nam 2200457z- 450 001 9910559800503321 005 20231214133545.0 035 $a(CKB)5700000000080373 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/81293 035 $a(EXLCZ)995700000000080373 100 $a20202205d2022 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aScreening Europe in Australasia$eTransnational silent film before and after the rise of Hollywood 210 $aExeter$cUniversity of Exeter Press$d2022 215 $a1 electronic resource (484 p.) 225 1 $aExeter Studies in Film History 311 $a1-905816-89-8 330 $aThrough a detailed study of the circulation of European silent film in Australasia in the early twentieth century, this book challenges the historical myopia that treats Hollywood films as having always dominated global film culture. Before World War I, European silent feature films were ubiquitous in Australia and New Zealand, teaching Antipodean audiences about Continental cultures and familiarizing them with glamorous European stars, from Asta Nielsen to Emil Jannings. After the rise of Hollywood and then the shift to sound film, this history?and its implications for cross-cultural exchange?was lost. Julie K. Allen recovers that history, with its flamboyant participants, transnational currents, innovative genres, and geopolitical complications, bringing it all vividly to life. Making ground-breaking use of digitized Australian and New Zealand newspapers, the author reconstructs the distribution and exhibition of European silent films in the Antipodes, along the way incorporating compelling biographical sketches of the ambitious pioneers of the Australasian cinema industry. She reveals the complexity and competitiveness of the early cinema market, in a region with high consumer demand and low domestic production, and frames the dramatic shift to almost exclusively American cinema programming during World War I, contextualizing the rise of the art film in the 1920s in competition with mainstream Hollywood productions. 517 $aScreening Europe in Australasia 606 $aFilms, cinema$2bicssc 606 $aMedia studies$2bicssc 606 $a20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000$2bicssc 606 $aCinema industry$2bicssc 606 $aPopular culture$2bicssc 606 $aAustralasia$2bicssc 610 $afilm, movies, cinema, silent film, Hollywood, popular entertainment, European, Australia 615 7$aFilms, cinema 615 7$aMedia studies 615 7$a20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 615 7$aCinema industry 615 7$aPopular culture 615 7$aAustralasia 700 $aAllen$b Julie K$4auth$01181467 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910559800503321 996 $aScreening Europe in Australasia$93038449 997 $aUNINA