World Film Locations: Vienna (Paperback). This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Intellect, Bristol, 2012
- Softcover
- New
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.Grand Eagle Retail
AbeBooks seller since October 12, 2005
Condition: New
£ 32.89
Item description from seller
Paperback. Vienna appears in cinema as, among other things, a historical crossroads, a source of great music, and a site of world-famous architecture ranging from gothic cathedrals and baroque palaces to landmark modern structures. A panorama that encompasses all these perspectives, World Film Locations: Vienna sheds new light on the movies shot in the former imperial capitaland on the city itself.The first English-language book to explore Viennas relationship with film beyond the waltz fantasies once shot in studios around the world, this volume shows how specific urban sites contribute to films that, in turn, play a role in our changing ideas about the city. In addition to reviews of key scenes from forty-six films from the silent era to the present, contributors explore such wide-ranging topics as the Austro-Hungarian Empire as cinematic myth; the Viennese film and Golden Age Hollywood; Jewish filmmakers and their take on lost cultural imagery; postwar nation building through film: and the startling other Vienna in the New Wave films of Michael Haneke, Barbara Albert, Ulrich Seidl, and Goetz Spielmann. Illuminating the rich multicultural cinematic history that eventually gave rise to the new Austrian films that began to capture international attention more than a decade ago, World Film Locations: Vienna will fascinate readers interested in film, art, architecture, literature, music, Jewish studies, or Central European history. Provides a panorama of international motion pictures shot on location in Austria's once imperial capitol, Vienna. The volume is illustrated with scene specific screen-grabs, and images of various locations as they currently appear, as well as city maps that include location information for investigating cinematic Vienna. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …
Seller Inventory # 9781841505695
- Title
- World Film Locations: Vienna (Paperback)
- Author
- Robert Dassanowsky
- Publisher
- Intellect, Bristol
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1841505692
- ISBN 13
- 9781841505695
World Film Locations: Vienna provides a panorama of international motion pictures shot on location in Austria's once imperical capital. Informative reviews of 46 film scenes and evocative essays examine for the first time Vienna's relationship to cinema outside the waltz fantasies shot in the studios of Hollywood, London, Paris, Berlin... and Vienna. Illustrations and screen-grabs are set alongside current images, as well as city maps locating ‘cinematic Vienna’. A Vienna at the crossroads of a turbulent history, as a source of great music and literature, and a site of world-famous architecture ranging from gothic cathedrals and baroque palaces to Jugendstil (Vienna's art nouveau) to the eco-challenges of the postmodern is revealed. Spotlight essays cover the images that evoke the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; the pioneering filmmaking of Willi Forst and Walter Reisch in the 1930s; Vienna's role in the entertainment cinema of the Third Reich; opulent royal epics of the 1950s and the city as backdrop for international moviemaking; Jewish filmmakers and their take on lost cultural imagery; and a startling New Wave cinema from filmmakers such as Michael Haneke, Barbara Albert and Ulrich Seidl.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Robert Dassanowsky is professor of German and visual and performing arts, and director of film studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His books include Austrian Cinema: A History (McFarland, 2005), New Austrian Film (co-ed. with O. Speck) (Berghahn, 2011), The Nameable and the Unnameable: Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s ‘Der Schwierige’ Revisited (co-ed. with M. Liebscher) (Iudicium, 2011), World Film Locations: Vienna (ed.) (Intellect, 2012), Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metafilm (ed.) (Continuum, 2012) and Screening Transcendence: Film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope 1933-38 (Indiana University Press, 2018). Dassanowsky is president emeritus of the Austrian Studies Association and a sponsor of the Vienna Independent Shorts Film Festival (VIS). He is a delegate of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a member of the European Film Academy and fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is also active as an independent film producer.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.