Destination London

by Bergfelder, Tim; Cargnelli, Christian

• ISBN13: 9781845455323
• ISBN10: 1845455320
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

"The legacy of emigres 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 emigre directors, actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, set designers, and composers. It goes on to assess the cultural and economic contexts of transnational industry collaborations in the 1920s, artistic cosmopolitanism in the 1930s, and anti-Nazi propaganda in the 1940s."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Tim Bergfelder is Professor in Film at the University of Southampton. He is the author of International Adventures: Popular German Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s (2005). His co-edited or co-authored volumes include The German Cinema Book (2002), The Titanic in Myth and Memory: Representations in Visual and Literary Culture (2004), and Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination (2007).

Christian Cargnelli's co-edited volumes include Aufbruch ins Ungewisse: +sterreichische Filmschaffende in der Emigration vor 1945 (1993), Schatten. Exil: EuropSische 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).

Table of Contents

Introduction: German-speaking Emigres and British Cinema, 1925-50: Cultural Exchange, Exile and the Boundaries of National Cinema	p. 1
Life Is a Variety Theatre: E. A. Dupont's Career in German and British Cinema	p. 24
Geza von Bolvary, Arnold Ridley and 'Film Europe'	p. 36
Inside the Robots' Castle: Ufa's English-language Versions in the Early 1930s	p. 47
Flamboyant Realism: Werner Brandes and British International Pictures in the Late 1920s	p. 62
Famously Unknown: Gunther Krampf's Work as Cinematographer in British Films	p. 78
'German, or still more horrible thought, Russian - at any rate, it is un-English!' A Wide Shot of Exile, Emigre and Itinerant Activity in the British Film Industry in the 1930s	p. 89
Extending Frames and Exploring Spaces: Alfred Junge, Set Design and Genre in British Cinema	p. 100
Lost in Siberia: Erno Metzner in Britain	p. 111
'Be kvite kviet, everybody, please!': Paul L. Stein and British Cinema	p. 123
Allegories of Displacement: Conrad Veidt's British Films	p. 142
Anton Walbrook: The Continental Consort	p. 155
From 'Alien Person' to 'Darling Lilli': Lilli Palmer's Roles in British Cinema	p. 172
'You call lis "Germans", you call us "brothers" - but we are not your brothers!': British Anti-Nazi Films and German- speaking Emigres	p. 181
Carl Mayer: Years of Exile in London	p. 195
Music for the People: Escapism and Social Comment in the Work of Hans May and Ernst Meyer	p. 204
I Know Where I'm Going! Hearing Germanic Music in the Scottish Isles	p. 220
'An Animated Quest for Freedom': Matyas Seiber's Score for The Magic Canvas	p. 230
Bibliography	p. 247
Index	p. 259
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