Driven to darkness : Jewish emigre directors and the rise of film noir / / Vincent Brook.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 285 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Jews in Germany : torn between two worlds
- Jews and expressionism : "performing high and low"
- The father of film noir : Fritz Lang
- Fritz Lang in Hollywood
- The French connection : Robert Siodmak
- Viennese twins : Billy and Willy Wilder
- The ABZs of film noir : Otto Preminger and Edgar G. Ulmer
- Woman's directors : Curtis Bernhardt and Max Ophuls
- Pathological noir, populist noir, and an act of violence : John Brahm, Anatole Litvak, Fred Zinnemann.