Ministry of Illusion
Author: Eric Rentschler
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1996-10
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780674576407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOverview of Nazi cinema
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G. W. Pabst
Author: Lee Atwell
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of G.W. Pabst, an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He started as an actor and theater director, before becoming one of the most influential German-language filmmakers during the Weimar Republic.
The Films of G.W. Pabst
Author: Eric Rentschler
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGW Pabst entered film history as a luminary of Weimar cinema, an astute observer of social struggle and psychic process, the espouser of a progressive and engaged film art. He gained international renown as the director of "The joyless street, Pandora's Box, Westfront 1918 and Kamaradschaft". After 1933, the once-revered auteur would become a voice incessantly modified and modulated by socio-political forces more sovereign than his best intentions, experiencing exile, emirgration, a sojourn in Holywood, a fateful return to Germany and an unsuccessful postwar attempt to regain a once considerable reputation. This collection of essays presents the first truly comprehensive image of a problematic firmmaker whose life and oeuvre compellingly reflect both the turbulent character of recent German history as well as the fate of artistic producers in the transcultural machinery of the modern world.
Continental Strangers
Author: Gerd Gemnden
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014-02-18
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0231166788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHundreds 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.
G.W. Pabst
Author: Gottfried Schlemmer
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9783888116001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora)
Author: Pamela Hutchinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-05-14
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1838719741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKG.W. Pabst's 1929 silent classic Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora), stars Hollywood icon Louise Brooks as the enigmatic heroine whose erotic charms lead to disaster for the men drawn into her web. Despite failing commercially upon release, it has evolved into a cult film long after it should have been forgotten. Pandora's Box captivates audiences with its libidinous, violent story, and its mysterious heroine whose motivations, as well as whose guilt or innocence, are difficult to determine. It is a sophisticated adaptation of Frank Wedekind's Lulu plays, and indisputably Louise Brooks' finest performance on film. In her compelling study, Pamela Hutchinson traces Pandora's production history and the many contexts of its creation and afterlife, revisiting and challenging many assumptions made about the film, its lead character and its star. Analysing the film act by act, she explores the conflicted relationship between Brooks and the director G.W. Pabst, the film's historical contexts in Weimar Berlin, and its changing fortunes since its release.
The Films of G.W. Pabst
Author: Eric Rentschler
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGW Pabst entered film history as a luminary of Weimar cinema, an astute observer of social struggle and psychic process, the espouser of a progressive and engaged film art. He gained international renown as the director of "The joyless street, Pandora's Box, Westfront 1918 and Kamaradschaft". After 1933, the once-revered auteur would become a voice incessantly modified and modulated by socio-political forces more sovereign than his best intentions, experiencing exile, emirgration, a sojourn in Holywood, a fateful return to Germany and an unsuccessful postwar attempt to regain a once considerable reputation. This collection of essays presents the first truly comprehensive image of a problematic firmmaker whose life and oeuvre compellingly reflect both the turbulent character of recent German history as well as the fate of artistic producers in the transcultural machinery of the modern world.
Femmes Fatales
Author: Mary Ann Doane
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780415903202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major work of feminist film criticism examining questions of sexual difference, the female body and the female spectator through a discussion of such figures as Pabst's Lulu and Rita Hayworth's Gilda.
Close Up: Cinema And Modernism
Author: James Donald
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0304335169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1927 and 1933, the journal "Close Up" championed a European avant-garde in film-making. This volume republishes articles from the journal, with an introduction and a commentary on the lives of, and complex relationships between, its writers and editors.
"Deep Play"
Author: Dianne Dugaw
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780874137316
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Deep Play" examines the emergence of modern self- and social-consciousness in eighteenth-century Britain as an awareness of class and culture. It examines popular ballads and songs, country dances, catches, mumming plays, beliefs and sayings, fables, stories, and legends as these plebeian cultural materials are brought by Gay to comment on "polite" opera, drama, and literature. Illustrated.
