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City of darkness, city of light émigré filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939

By Phillips , Alastair

Book information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
ISBN
9053566333, 9053566341, 9789053566336
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2340706 bytes)
Series
Amsterdam University Press - Film Culture in Transition
Pages
256\257
Time added
2020-11-29 04:09:53
Culture;Film

Description

The volume is the first-ever book-length study of the cinematic representation of Paris in the films of German èmigrè filmmakers, many of whom fled there as a refuge from Hitler. In coming to Paris—a privileged site in terms of production, exhibition, and film culture—these experienced professionals also encountered resistance: hostility toward Germans, anti-Semitism, and boycotts from a French industry afraid of losing jobs to foreigners. Phillips juxtaposes the cinematic portrayal of Paris in the films of Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Max Ophüls, Anatol Litvak, and others with the wider social and cultural debates about the city in cinema.

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