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Hollywood in Berlin : American cinema and Weimar Germany /

Charlie Chaplin, Hollywood's most famous film star, went almost unnoticed when he visited Berlin in 1921. Three years later, Jackie Coogan was mobbed by Berlin fans. Within two years after that, audiences were protesting with howls and angry whistling against the American motion pictures that d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saunders, Thomas J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994.
Colección:Weimar and now ; 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The setting: Weimar Germany and the motion picture
  • German-American film relations: competition and cooperation
  • Hollywood in Berlin: the initiation, 1921-1923
  • The Hollywood invasion: Amerikanismus and Amerikamudigkeit
  • Excursus: popular culture and American hegemony
  • Comic redemption: the slapstick synthesis
  • German-American production in Hollywood and the meaning of national cinema
  • The coming of sound and the waning of America.