Robert Dassanowsky

Screening Transcendence

Film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933-1938

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Produktbeschreibung

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 period (1933-1938) developed two overlapping industries: "Aryanized" films for distribution in Germany, its largest market, and "Emigrantenfilm," which employed émigré and Jewish talent that appealed to international audiences. Through detailed archival research in both Vienna and the United States, Dassanowsky reveals what was culturally, socially, and politically at stake in these two simultaneous and overlapping film industries. Influenced by French auteurism, admired by Italian cinephiles, and ardently remade by Hollywood, these period Austrian films demonstrate a distinctive regional style mixed with transnational influences. Combining brilliant close readings of individual films with thoroughly informed historical and cultural observations, Dassanowsky presents the story of a nation and an industry mired in politics, power, and intrigue on the brink of Nazi occupation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1046g
• ISBN-13: 9780253033628
• ISBN-10: 0253033624
• Artikelnr.: 49662248

Autorenporträt

Robert Dassanowsky

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Part I: 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 Siècle Vienna, and Political Catholicism in
Public Spectacle
3. Against Nazism and with Catholicism? Two Film Industries and the Jewish
Filmmaker's Conundrum
Part II: Genres and Types
4. Cinema Baroque: Reconsidering the Willi Forst/Walter Reisch Viennese
Film Genre and its Trans/National/ist Value
5. 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, the 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 Style
11. Snow Blinded: The Alps versus Vienna in Film at the End of the Regime
Part III: Locations
12. From Rome to the Hollywood Hope: Shared Aesthetics, the 1936/37
Vienna-Hollywood Co-Production Plan, and Cine-Economic Brinkmanship with
Berlin
Epilogue
Filmography: List of Austrian Feature Films 1933-1938
Bibliography
Index