Tobias Hochscherf

The continental connection

German-speaking émigrés and British cinema, 1927-45

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Produktbeschreibung

This study is a major appraisal of the contributions of German-speaking emigres to British cinema from the late 1920s to the end of World War II. Through a series of film analyses and case studies, it challenges notions of a self-sufficient British national cinema by advancing the assumption that filmmakers from Berlin, Munich and Vienna had a major influence on aesthetics, themes and narratives, technical innovation, the organisation of work and the introduction of apprenticeship schemes. Whether they came voluntarily or as refugees, their contributions and expertise helped to consolidate the studio system and ultimately made possible the establishment of a viable British film industry. Hochscherf talks about such figures as Ewald Andre Dupont, Alfred Junge, Oscar Werndorff, Mutz Greenbaum and Werner Brandes, and such companies as Korda's London Film Productions, Powell and Pressburger's The Archers and Michael Balcon's Gaumont-British.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780719083099
• ISBN-10: 0719083095
• Artikelnr.: 33154780

Autorenporträt

Tobias Hochscherf is a professor of audio-visual media at University of Applied Sciences in Kiel, Germany. His research on European film and television culture has been widely published.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Acknowedgments 1. Introduction 2. Transnational
developments and migrants: the internationalisation of British studios,
1927-33 Film Europe as prerequisite: transnational networks in European
cinema The thriving film industry in the UK and the UFA crisis Elstree as
centre of immigration: Ewald André Dupont and BIP A new job for everyone?
Immigration and the employment strategies of British production companies
in the late 1920s Internationalism and the 'unpleasant emotional appeal':
Cosmopolitan émigré films and their reception in Britain 3. Refugees from
the Third Reich: 1933-39 British immigration policies and the internment of
émigrés London's émigré community and exile film genres Émigrés and
politics: censorship and propaganda before the war Émigrés and
displacement: Representations of the diaspora and recollections of the
Heimat Resentment and protectionism: Public opinion and the Association of
Cinematograph Technicians (ACT) 4. 'What a difference a war makes':
German-speaking 'enemy aliens' and valuable allies, 1939-45 British
anti-Nazi films and German-speaking personnel Representations of émigrés
after the declaration of war 5. Conclusions: The Legacy of German-speaking
Filmmakers in Britain Afterthought: Postwar Émigré Careers and the Question
of Remigration, 1945-49 Sources Select bibliography