A divided world
Subtitle: Hollywood cinema and emigré directors in the era of Roosevelt and Hitler, 1933-1948
By: Nick Smedley
Publisher: Intellect
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bristol, UK; Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781841504025
Subjects: Motion pictures; Politics and government; Immigrants; Criticism and interpretation; Expatriate motion picture producers and directors; Sex role in motion pictures; Motion picture industry; Germans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Once upon a time in America: American society and culture, 1933-1948; title: The keeper of the flame: Hollywood and the cinema of liberal idealism; title: Trouble in paradise: Hollywood films and American social change; title: Case study 1: 'Everything that happens must be strictly American': Fritz Lang and Hollywood idealism; title: Case study 2: Sex, violence and alcohol: Billy Wilder in the 1940s; title: The devil is a woman: Hollywood films and the American woman; title: 'Definitely bawdy and offensively suggestive': Lubitsch and the American woman; title: 'Love cures the wounds it makes': Lang and Wilder: conventional portraits of the American woman; title: The world changes: Hollywood and international affairs; title: Case study 5: 'World political theater': Lubitsch and foreign affairs; title: Case study 6: 'As corruptible as the others': Wilder on America and Europe; title: Case study 7: 'Propaganda can be art': Lang and international affairs; title: Conclusion.