Destination London: German-speaking Emigrés and British Cinema, 1925-1950

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Tim Bergfelder, Christian Cargnelli
Berghahn Books, 2008 - History - 272 pages

The legacy of emigrés in the British film industry, from the silent film era until after the Second World War, has been largely neglected in the scholarly literature. Destination London is the first book to redress this imbalance. Focusing on areas such as exile, genre, technological transfer, professional training and education, cross-cultural exchange and representation, it begins by mapping the reasons for this neglect before examining the contributions made to British cinema by emigré directors, actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, set designers, and composers. It goes on to assess the cultural and economic contexts of transnational industry collaborations in the 1920s, artistic cosmopolitanism in the 1930s, and anti-Nazi propaganda in the 1940s.

 

Contents

E A Duponts Career in German
24
Geza von Bolvary Arnold Ridley and Film Europe
36
Ufas Englishlanguage Versions
47
Werner Brandes and British International
62
Günther Krampfs Work
78
German or still more horrible thought Russian at any rate
89
Alfred Junge
100
Ernö Metzner in Britain
111
Conrad Veidts British Films
142
The Continental Consort
155
Lilli Palmers Roles
172
Years of Exile in London
195
Scottish Isles
220
Notes on Contributors
243
Index
259
Copyright

Paul L Stein and British
123

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About the author (2008)

Tim Bergfelder is Professor in Film at the University of Southampton. He is the author of International Adventures: Popular German Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s (2005). His co-edited or co-authored volumes include The German Cinema Book (2002), The Titanic in Myth and Memory: Representations in Visual and Literary Culture (2004), and Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination (2007). Christian Cargnelli is a film historian based in Vienna and teaches film history at the University of Vienna. He holds a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Southampton and has published widely on film exile and exile film. His co-edited volumes include Aufbruch ins Ungewisse: terreichische Filmschaffende in der Emigration vor 1945 (1993), Schatten. Exil: Europ äi che Emigranten im Film Noir (1997), and Carl Mayer, Scenar[t]ist (2003). He is the editor of Gustav Machaty - Ein Filmregisseur zwischen Prag und Hollywood (2005).