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Author Koepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter)

Title The dark mirror : German cinema between Hitler and Hollywood / Lutz Koepnick
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) : illustrations
Series Weimar and now ; 32
Weimar and now ; 32.
Contents Introduction: The Dark Mirror -- pt. 1. Hollywood in Berlin, 1933-1939. Ch. 1. Sounds of Silence: Nazi Cinema and the Quest for a National Culture Industry. Ch. 2. Incorporating the Underground: Curtis Bernhardt's The Tunnel. Ch. 3. Engendering Mass Culture: Zarah Leander and the Economy of Desire. Ch. 4. Siegfried Rides Again: Nazi Westerns and Modernity -- pt. 2. Berlin in Hollywood, 1939-1955. Ch. 5. Wagner at Warner's: German Sounds and Hollywood Studio Visions. Ch. 6. Berlin Noir: Robert Siodmak's Hollywood. Ch. 7. Pianos, Priests, and Popular Culture: Sirk, Lang, and the Legacy of American Populism. Ch. 8. Isolde Resurrected: Curtis Bernhardt's Interrupted Melody -- Epilogue: "Talking about Germany."
Summary "Lutz 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 1930s until the mid 1950s, 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. Through detailed readings of specific films, Koepnick provides a vivid sense of the give and take between German and American cinema." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal042/2001007068.html
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-307) and index
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Subject Motion pictures -- Germany -- History
Motion picture producers and directors -- Germany -- Biography
Germans -- California -- Los Angeles
Motion picture producers and directors -- Germany -- Biography
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
Germans
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion pictures
California -- Los Angeles
Germany
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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