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Book Continental Strangers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerd GemŸnden
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2014-02-18
  • ISBN : 0231166788
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Continental Strangers written by Gerd GemŸnden and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, as well as Germany, and including Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Zinnemann, Billy Wilder, and Fritz Lang, these multicultural, multilingual writers and directors betrayed distinct cultural sensibilities in their art. Gerd Gemünden focuses on Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat (1934), William Dieterle’s The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942), Bertold Brecht and Fritz Lang’s Hangmen Also Die (1943), Fred Zinneman’s Act of Violence (1948), and Peter Lorre’s Der Verlorene (1951), engaging with issues of realism, auteurism, and genre while tracing the relationship between film and history, Hollywood politics and censorship, and exile and (re)migration.

Book Continental Strangers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerd Gemünden
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2014-01-21
  • ISBN : 0231536526
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Continental Strangers written by Gerd Gemünden and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, as well as Germany, and including Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Zinnemann, Billy Wilder, and Fritz Lang, these multicultural, multilingual writers and directors betrayed distinct cultural sensibilities in their art. Gerd Gemünden focuses on Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat (1934), William Dieterle's The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942), Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang's Hangmen Also Die (1943), Fred Zinnemann's Act of Violence (1948), and Peter Lorre's Der Verlorene (1951), engaging with issues of realism, auteurism, and genre while tracing the relationship between film and history, Hollywood politics and censorship, and exile and (re)migration.

Book Mary Aikenhead  Her Life  Her Work  and Her Friends  Giving a History of the Foundation of the Congregation of the Irish Sisters of Charity

Download or read book Mary Aikenhead Her Life Her Work and Her Friends Giving a History of the Foundation of the Congregation of the Irish Sisters of Charity written by S. A. and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Englische synonmik

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  • Author : Wilhelm Dreser
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1881
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 636 pages

Download or read book Englische synonmik written by Wilhelm Dreser and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journals of the Continental Congress 1774 1789

Download or read book Journals of the Continental Congress 1774 1789 written by United States. Continental Congress and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mary Aikenhead

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  • Author : Sarah Atkinson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 570 pages

Download or read book Mary Aikenhead written by Sarah Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Phenomenologies of the Stranger

Download or read book Phenomenologies of the Stranger written by Richard Kearney and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly proceedings of a conference held in 2009 at Boston College.

Book Journals of the Continental Congress 1774 1789

Download or read book Journals of the Continental Congress 1774 1789 written by United States. Continental Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sun and Her Stars

Download or read book The Sun and Her Stars written by Donna Rifkind and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Jewish Book Award Finalist The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 40s Hollywood created a refuge for a multitude of famous figures who had escaped the horrors of World War ll. Hollywood was created by its “others”; that is, by women, Jews, and immigrants. Salka Viertel was all three and so much more. She was the screenwriter for five of Greta Garbo's movies and also her most intimate friend. At one point during the Irving Thalberg years, Viertel was the highest-paid writer on the MGM lot. Meanwhile, at her house in Santa Monica she opened her door on Sunday afternoons to scores of European émigrés who had fled from Hitler—such as Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, and Arnold Schoenberg—along with every kind of Hollywood star, from Charlie Chaplin to Shelley Winters. In Viertel's living room (the only one in town with comfortable armchairs, said one Hollywood insider), countless cinematic, theatrical, and musical partnerships were born. Viertel combined a modern-before-her-time sensibility with the Old-World advantages of a classical European education and fluency in eight languages. She combined great worldliness with great warmth. She was a true bohemian with a complicated erotic life, and at the same time a universal mother figure. A vital presence in the golden age of Hollywood, Salka Viertel is long overdue for her own moment in the spotlight.

Book The Archaeological Journal

Download or read book The Archaeological Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches

Download or read book A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches written by William Francis Collier and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land     Read at the Ordinary General Meeting of the Institution of Surveyors  January 29th  1872   With discussions on the paper

Download or read book Land Read at the Ordinary General Meeting of the Institution of Surveyors January 29th 1872 With discussions on the paper written by Edmund James SMITH and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of English Literature

Download or read book A History of English Literature written by William Francis Collier and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bradshaw s continental  afterw   monthly continental railway  steam navigation   conveyance guide  June 1847   July Oct  1939

Download or read book Bradshaw s continental afterw monthly continental railway steam navigation conveyance guide June 1847 July Oct 1939 written by George Bradshaw and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rewriting Indie Cinema

Download or read book Rewriting Indie Cinema written by J. J. Murphy and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most films rely on a script developed in pre-production. Yet beginning in the 1950s and continuing through the recent mumblecore movement, key independent filmmakers have broken with the traditional screenplay. Instead, they have turned to new approaches to scripting that allow for more complex characterization and shift the emphasis from the page to performance. In Rewriting Indie Cinema, J. J. Murphy explores these alternative forms of scripting and how they have shaped American film from the 1950s to the present. He traces a strain of indie cinema that used improvisation and psychodrama, a therapeutic form of improvised acting based on a performer’s own life experiences. Murphy begins in the 1950s and 1960s with John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Barbara Loden, Andy Warhol, Norman Mailer, William Greaves, and other independent directors who sought to create a new type of narrative cinema. In the twenty-first century, filmmakers such as Gus Van Sant, the Safdie brothers, Joe Swanberg, and Sean Baker developed similar strategies, sometimes benefitting from the freedom of digital technology. In reading key films and analyzing their techniques, Rewriting Indie Cinema demonstrates how divergence from the script has blurred the divide between fiction and nonfiction. Showing the ways in which filmmakers have striven to capture the subtleties of everyday behavior, Murphy provides a new history of American indie filmmaking and how it challenges Hollywood industrial practices.

Book Reform Cinema in Iran

Download or read book Reform Cinema in Iran written by Blake Atwood and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is nearly impossible to separate contemporary Iranian cinema from the Islamic revolution that transformed film production in the country in the late 1970s. As the aims of the revolution shifted and hardened once Khomeini took power and as an eight-year war with Iraq dragged on, Iranian filmmakers confronted new restrictions. In the 1990s, however, the Reformist Movement, led by Mohammad Khatami, and the film industry, developed an unlikely partnership that moved audiences away from revolutionary ideas and toward a discourse of reform. In Reform Cinema in Iran, Blake Atwood examines how new industrial and aesthetic practices created a distinct cultural and political style in Iranian film between 1989 and 2007. Atwood analyzes a range of popular, art, and documentary films. He provides new readings of internationally recognized films such as Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry (1997) and Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Time for Love (1990), as well as those by Rakhshan Bani, Masud Kiami, and other key Iranian directors. At the same time, he also considers how filmmakers and the film industry were affected by larger political and religious trends that took shape during Mohammad Khatami's presidency (1997-2005). Atwood analyzes political speeches, religious sermons, and newspaper editorials and pays close attention to technological developments, particularly the rise of video, to determine their role in democratizing filmmaking and realizing the goals of political reform. He concludes with a look at the legacy of reform cinema, including films produced under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose neoconservative discourse rejected the policies of reform that preceded him.