Hollywood in Berlin : American cinema and Weimar Germany /

Charlie Chaplin, Hollywood's most famous film star, went almost unnoticed when he visited Berlin in 1921. Three years later, Jackie Coogan was mobbed by Berlin fans. Within two years after that, audiences were protesting with howls and angry whistling against the American motion pictures that d...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Saunders, Thomas J.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1994.
Collection:Weimar and now ; 6.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501309
Table des matières:
  • The setting: Weimar Germany and the motion picture
  • German-American film relations: competition and cooperation
  • Hollywood in Berlin: the initiation, 1921-1923
  • The Hollywood invasion: Amerikanismus and Amerikamudigkeit
  • Excursus: popular culture and American hegemony
  • Comic redemption: the slapstick synthesis
  • German-American production in Hollywood and the meaning of national cinema
  • The coming of sound and the waning of America.