Destination London : : German-Speaking Emigrés and British Cinema, 1925-1950 / / ed. by Tim Bergfelder, Christian Cargnelli.

• MitwirkendeR: Bergfelder, Tim,; Cargnelli, Christian,; Donnelly, K.J.,; Ede, Laurie N.,; Gemünden, Gerd,; Hochscherf, Tobias,; Mayr, Brigitte,; Napper, Lawrence,; Omasta, Michael,; Robinson, Kelly,; Sargeant, Amy,; Scheding, Florian,; Street, Sarah,; Wahl, Chris,; Williams, Michael,; Ziereis, Barbara,
• HerausgeberIn: Bergfelder, Tim,; Cargnelli, Christian,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Film Europa ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: GERMAN-SPEAKING EMIGRÉS AND BRITISH CINEMA, 1925–50: CULTURAL EXCHANGE, EXILE AND THE BOUNDARIES OF NATIONAL CINEMA -- Chapter 2 LIFE IS A VARIETY THEATRE – E.A. DUPONT’S CAREER IN GERMAN AND BRITISH CINEMA -- Chapter 3 GEZA VON BOLVARY, ARNOLD RIDLEY AND ‘FILM EUROPE’ -- Chapter 4 INSIDE THE ROBOTS’ CASTLE: UFA’S ENGLISH-LANGUAGE VERSIONS IN THE EARLY 1930S -- Chapter 5 FLAMBOYANT REALISM: WERNER BRANDES AND BRITISH INTERNATIONAL PICTURES IN THE LATE 1920S -- Chapter 6 FAMOUSLY UNKNOWN: GÜNTHER KRAMPF’S WORK AS CINEMATOGRAPHER IN BRITISH FILMS -- Chapter 7 ‘GERMAN, OR STILL MORE HORRIBLE THOUGHT, RUSSIAN – AT ANY RATE, IT IS UN-ENGLISH!’: A WIDE SHOT OF EXILE, EMIGRÉ AND ITINERANT ACTIVITY IN THE BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY IN THE 1930S -- Chapter 8 EXTENDING FRAMES AND EXPLORING SPACES: ALFRED JUNGE, SET DESIGN AND GENRE IN BRITISH CINEMA -- Chapter 9 LOST IN SIBERIA: ERNÖ METZNER IN BRITAIN -- Chapter 10 ‘BE KVITE KVIET, EVERYBODY, PLEASE!’: PAUL L. STEIN AND BRITISH CINEMA -- Chapter 11 ALLEGORIES OF DISPLACEMENT: CONRAD VEIDT’S BRITISH FILMS -- Chapter 12 ANTON WALBROOK: THE CONTINENTAL CONSORT -- Chapter 13 FROM ‘ALIEN PERSON’ TO ‘DARLING LILLI’: LILLI PALMER’S ROLES IN BRITISH CINEMA -- Chapter 14 ‘YOU CALL US “GERMANS”, YOU CALL US “BROTHERS” – BUT WE ARE NOT YOUR BROTHERS!’: BRITISH ANTI-NAZI FILMS AND GERMAN-SPEAKING ÉMIGRÉS -- Chapter 15 CARL MAYER: YEARS OF EXILE IN LONDON -- Chapter 16 MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE: ESCAPISM AND SOCIAL COMMENT IN THE WORK OF HANS MAY AND ERNST MEYER -- Chapter 17 I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING! HEARING GERMANIC MUSIC IN THE SCOTTISH ISLES -- Chapter 18 ‘AN ANIMATED QUEST FOR FREEDOM’: MÁTYÁS SEIBER’S SCORE FOR THE MAGIC CANVAS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX