Tim (Hrsg.) Bergfelder

Destination London

German-speaking Emigres and British Cinema, 1925-1950

Buch

The legacy of emigrés in the British film industry, from the silent film era until after the Second World War, has been largely neglected in the scholarly literature. Destination London is the first book to redress this imbalance. Focusing on areas such as exile, genre, technological transfer, professional training and education, cross-cultural exchange and representation, it begins by mapping the reasons for this neglect before examining the contributions made to British cinema by emigré directors, actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, set designers, and composers. It goes on to assess the cultural and economic contexts of transnational… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Cargnelli, Christian (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-84545-532-3
EAN: 9781845455323
Produktnummer: 19825635
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Masse: H15.9 cm x B23.6 cm x D2.2 cm 512 g
Gewicht: 512
Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Über den Autor

Christian Cargnelli is a film historian based in Vienna and teaches film history at the University of Vienna. He holds a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Southampton and has published widely on film exile and exile film. His co-edited volumes include Aufbruch ins Ungewisse: terreichische Filmschaffende in der Emigration vor 1945 (1993), Schatten. Exil: Europäiche Emigranten im Film Noir (1997), and Carl Mayer, Scenar[t]ist (2003). He is the editor of Gustav Machaty - Ein Filmregisseur zwischen Prag und Hollywood (2005).