Research Catalog

Title

A divided world : Hollywood cinema and emigré directors in the era of Roosevelt and Hitler, 1933-1948 / Nick Smedley.

Author

Smedley, Nick

Publication

Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2011.

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Description

277 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947 > Criticism and interpretation
• Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976 > Criticism and interpretation
• Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002 > Criticism and interpretation
• Motion picture industry > Los Angeles > History > 20th century
• Expatriate motion picture producers and directors > United States
• Motion pictures > Political aspects > United States
• Germans > Los Angeles
• Sex role in motion pictures
• Immigrants > Los Angeles
• United States > Politics and government > 1933-1953

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Once upon a time in America: American society and culture, 1933-1948 -- The keeper of the flame: Hollywood and the cinema of liberal idealism -- Trouble in paradise: Hollywood films and American social change -- Case study 1: 'Everything that happens must be strictly American': Fritz Lang and Hollywood idealism -- Case study 2: Sex, violence and alcohol: Billy Wilder in the 1940s -- The devil is a woman: Hollywood films and the American woman -- 'Definitely bawdy and offensively suggestive': Lubitsch and the American woman -- 'Love cures the wounds it makes': Lang and Wilder: conventional portraits of the American woman -- The world changes: Hollywood and international affairs -- Case study 5: 'World political theater': Lubitsch and foreign affairs -- Case study 6: 'As corruptible as the others': Wilder on America and Europe -- Case study 7: 'Propaganda can be art': Lang and international affairs -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9781841504025 (alk. paper)
• 1841504025 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010041838

OCLC

670324814

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library