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Screening Transcendence : Film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933-1938 /

During the 1930s, Austrian film production companies developed a process to navigate the competing demands of audiences in Nazi Germany and those found in broader Western markets. In Screening Transcendence, film historian Robert Dassanowsky explores how Austrian filmmakers during the Austrofascist...

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Autor principal: Dassanowsky, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Front Cover; Half Title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Structures; 1. System of Faith and Aesthetics of Loss: Austrian Cultural Politics in the First Republic and the Christian Corporate State; 2. Scopic Regimes: Notes on Newsreel and Culture Film Production, the Legacy of Baroque and Fin de Siecle Vienna, and Political Catholicism in Public Spectacle; 3. Against Nazism and with Catholicism? Two Film Industries and the Jewish Filmmaker's Conundrum; Part 2: Genres, Narratives, Contexts.
  • 4. Cinema Baroque: Reconsidering the Willi Forst / Walter Reisch Viennese Film Genre and its Trans/National/ist Value5. Projecting Transcendence: Emigrantenfilm, the Church, and the Construction of a Catholic-Political Identity in Singende Jugend and Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld; 6. Gendering the Crusade: Female Types and Sexuality in Feature Film; 7. Tales of the Patriarchy: Of Cavaliers, Cads, and the Common Man; 8. Reasonable Fantasies: Cine-Operetta, Sängerfilm, and Sociocritical Music Film; 9. New Order Out of Chaos: The Austrian Screwball and Hybrid Comedy.
  • 10. Contemporary Conflicts: Experimentalism, Controversy, and the Question of National Film Style11. Snow Blinded: The Alps versus Vienna in Film at the End of the Regime; Part 3: Locations; 12. From Rome to the Hollywood Hope: Shared Aesthetics, the 1936-1937 Vienna-Hollywood Coproduction Plan, and Cine-Economic Brinkmanship with Berlin; Epilogue; Filmography; Bibliography; Index.