The Ufa Story

by Kreimeier, Klaus; Kimber, Robert; Kimber, Rita

• ISBN13: 9780520220690
• ISBN10: 0520220692
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

This is the definitive treatment of the German state film company, the one film company that challenged Hollywood for cultural dominance and market share in Jazz Age Europe.

Author Biography

Klaus Kreimeier was cultural editor for Der Spiegel and has taught at the German Film and Television Academy. A freelance journalist, he lives in Berlin.

Table of Contents

Fade In	3	(4)
Preview	7	(22)
Part One
Ludendorff's Golem and How It Came into the World	29	(5)
The Roofless House: The Movies and Everyday Life During the War	34	(4)
The End of the World and New Beginnings: The First Year of Ufa	38	(10)
Lay Down Your Arms! Cinema and Revolution	48	(13)
Ufa Goes Abroad	61	(4)
Early Monumentalism: On the Way to Becoming a Major Film Power	65	(11)
The Allure of Distant Lands: Inflation and Expansion	76	(9)
The Democratic Department Store: Ufa Films in 1920--22	85	(12)
The Builders' Guild in Ufa's Studios	97	(14)
The Aesthetics of the Grandiose in Ufa's Theaters	111	(10)
The Balance after Liquidation: The Cathedral in Crisis	121	(10)
Mind and Power: Ufa and the Intellectuals	131	(15)
Was There an Ufa Style? The Limits of Illusion	146	(12)
The General in Civvies: Ufa under Hugenberg	158	(15)
German Musicality and the Arrival of Sound Film	173	(13)
Revue and Decline: The Last Years of the Republic	186	(19)
Part Two
Rituals of Death: The Year 1933	205	(16)
Converting Ufa into a State-Controlled Company	221	(8)
The Censorship Machine: Ufa and the Reich Film Guild	229	(7)
Bacchic Chaos: Consumerism, Eroticism, and Cinema in the Nazi State	236	(11)
Architecture, Film, and Death	247	(8)
Ufa under State Ownership	255	(11)
Sport on the Warship: Newsreels, Cultural Films, and Education for War	266	(8)
The Poisoned Kitchen: Propaganda and ``Unpolitical Entertainment'' before the War	274	(15)
Soldiers of Art? The Stars of Ufa	289	(14)
Ufa Goes to War	303	(15)
Survival Is All That Matters	318	(13)
German Film Policy in the Occupied Countries	331	(10)
Blood Red in Dreadful Beauty: Goebbels and Melodrama	341	(13)
The End of Universum-Film AG	354	(39)
Trailer	365	(22)
Epilogue	387	(4)
Fade Out	391	(2)
Notes and Sources	393	(26)
Index	419