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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Continental Strangers
Author: Gerd Gemnden
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014-02-18
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0231166796
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.
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.
The Pool Group and the Quest for Anthropological Universality
Author: Betsy van Schlun
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-11-21
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 3110488671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.
"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.
German Film & Literature
Author: Eric Rentschler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1136368809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1986. This collection of essays by an international team of scholars is the first sustained investigation in any language of the historical interactions between German film and literature. It is a book about adaptations and transformations, about why filmmakers adapt certain material at certain times. The major impetus at work is the desire to expand the field of adaptation study to include sociological, theoretical and historical dimensions, and to bring a livelier regard for intertextuality to the studies of German film and literature. It is concerned with the ways in which filmmakers in Germany- from Pabst and von Sternberg to Fassbinder, Herzog and Sanders-Brahms- have engaged and been engaged by, literary history.
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.
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.
Weimar Cinema
Author: Noah William Isenberg
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 0231130546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this comprehensive companion to Weimar cinema, chapters address the technological advancements of each film, their production and place within the larger history of German cinema, the style of the director, the actors and the rise of the German star, and the critical reception of the film.
Film – An International Bibliography
Author: Malte Hagener
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-12-16
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 3476036863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKommentierte Bibliografie. Sie gibt Wissenschaftlern, Studierenden und Journalisten zuverlässig Auskunft über rund 6000 internationale Veröffentlichungen zum Thema Film und Medien. Die vorgestellten Rubriken reichen von Nachschlagewerk über Filmgeschichte bis hin zu Fernsehen, Video, Multimedia.
