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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.
Price: $33.95
Pages: 334
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
Publication Date:
03 October 2002
ISBN: 9780520936355
Format: eBook
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Dark Mirror
PART 1: HOLLYWOOD in BERLIN, 1933–1939
Chapter 1 Sounds of Silence: Nazi Cinema and the Quest for a National Culture Industry
Chapter 2 Incorporating the Underground: Curtis Bernhardt’s The Tunnel
Chapter 3 Engendering Mass Culture: Zarah Leander and the Economy of Desire
Chapter 4 Siegfried Rides Again: Nazi Westerns and Modernity
PART 2: BERLIN in HOLLYWOOD, 1939–1955
Chapter 5 Wagner at Warner’s: German Sounds and Hollywood Studio Visions
Chapter 6 Berlin Noir: Robert Siodmak’s Hollywood
Chapter 7 Pianos, Priests, and Popular Culture: Sirk, Lang, and the Legacy of American Populism
Chapter 8 Isolde Resurrected: Curtis Bernhardt’s Interrupted Melody
Epilogue: "Talking about Germany"
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Dark Mirror
PART 1: HOLLYWOOD in BERLIN, 1933–1939
Chapter 1 Sounds of Silence: Nazi Cinema and the Quest for a National Culture Industry
Chapter 2 Incorporating the Underground: Curtis Bernhardt’s The Tunnel
Chapter 3 Engendering Mass Culture: Zarah Leander and the Economy of Desire
Chapter 4 Siegfried Rides Again: Nazi Westerns and Modernity
PART 2: BERLIN in HOLLYWOOD, 1939–1955
Chapter 5 Wagner at Warner’s: German Sounds and Hollywood Studio Visions
Chapter 6 Berlin Noir: Robert Siodmak’s Hollywood
Chapter 7 Pianos, Priests, and Popular Culture: Sirk, Lang, and the Legacy of American Populism
Chapter 8 Isolde Resurrected: Curtis Bernhardt’s Interrupted Melody
Epilogue: "Talking about Germany"
Notes
Index