Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany: 6 (Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism) - Hardcover

Saunders, Thomas J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520083547 ISBN 13: 9780520083547

Publisher: California University Press, 1994

Synopsis

SAUNDERS, T. J. HOLLYWOOD IN BERLIN. AMERICAN CINEMA AND WEIMAR GERMANY. BERKELEY, CA, 1994, x 332 p.,fotografias. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

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Synopsis:

The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cultural challenge to Hollywood. In his study, Thomas Saunders explores an example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion picture. The invasion of Germany by American films, which began in 1921 with overlapping waves of sensationalist serials, slapstick shorts, society pictures and historical epics, initiated a decade of cultural collision and accommodation. On the one hand it fueled an impassioned debate about the properties of cinema and the spectre of wholesale Americanization. On the other hand it spawned unprecedented levels of co-operation and exchange. In Berlin, American motion pictures not only entertained all social classes and film tastes but also served as a vehicle for American values and a source of sharp economic competition. This study correlates the changing forms of Hollywood's contribution to Weimar culture and the discourses that framed and interpreted them, restoring historical contours to a leading aspect of cultural interchange in this century.

At the same time, the book puts Weimar cinema in its contemporary international setting.

From the Back Cover:

"The book approaches an often explored topic and consistently yields scintillating and original results, gaining its power from the richness and wide variety of its sources."--Eric Rentschler, author of "West German Film in the Course of Time

About this edition

• Publisher: California University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0520083547
• ISBN 13: 9780520083547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 348