Driven to Darkness : Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brook, Vincent, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Jewish motion picture producers and directors > United States.
Film noir > United States > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Jews in Germany : torn between two worlds
  • Jews and expressionism : "performing high and low"
  • The father of film noir : Fritz Lang
  • Fritz Lang in Hollywood
  • The French connection : Robert Siodmak
  • Viennese twins : Billy and Willy Wilder
  • The ABZs of film noir : Otto Preminger and Edgar G. Ulmer
  • Woman's directors : Curtis Bernhardt and Max Ophuls
  • Pathological noir, populist noir, and an act of violence : John Brahm, Anatole Litvak, Fred Zinnemann.

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