A divided world : Hollywood cinema and emigré directors in the era of Roosevelt and Hitler, 1933-1948 /

Roosevelt's New Deal introduced sweeping social, political and cultural change across the United States, which the Hollywood film community embraced enthusiastically. When the heady idealism of the 1930s was replaced by the paranoia and fear of the post-war years, Hollywood became an easy targe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smedley, Nicholas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2011.
Temas:
Lubitsch, Ernst, > 1892-1947 > Criticism and interpretation.
Lang, Fritz, > 1890-1976 > Criticism and interpretation.
Wilder, Billy, > 1906-2002 > Criticism and interpretation.
Lang, Fritz, > 1890-1976.
Lubitsch, Ernst, > 1892-1947.
Wilder, Billy, > 1906-2002.
1900-1999
Motion picture industry > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Expatriate motion picture producers and directors > United States.
Motion pictures > Political aspects > United States.
Germans > California > Los Angeles.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Immigrants > California > Los Angeles.
Cinéma > Industrie > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Allemands > Californie > Los Angeles.
Rôle selon le sexe au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Expatriate motion picture producers and directors.
Germans.
Immigrants.
Motion picture industry.
Motion pictures > Political aspects.
Politics and government
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Reference
United States > Politics and government > 1933-1953.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1933-1953.
California > Los Angeles.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Once upon a time in America: American society and culture, 1933-1948
  • The keeper of the flame: Hollywood and the cinema of liberal idealism
  • Trouble in paradise: Hollywood films and American social change
  • Case study 1: 'Everything that happens must be strictly American': Fritz Lang and Hollywood idealism
  • Case study 2: Sex, violence and alcohol: Billy Wilder in the 1940s
  • The devil is a woman: Hollywood films and the American woman
  • 'Definitely bawdy and offensively suggestive': Lubitsch and the American woman
  • 'Love cures the wounds it makes': Lang and Wilder: conventional portraits of the American woman
  • The world changes: Hollywood and international affairs
  • Case study 5: 'World political theater': Lubitsch and foreign affairs
  • Case study 6: 'As corruptible as the others': Wilder on America and Europe
  • Case study 7: 'Propaganda can be art': Lang and international affairs
  • Conclusion.

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