City of Darkness, City of Light : : Emigre Filmmakers in Paris, 1929-1939 / / Alastair Phillips.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Phillips, Alastair,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2003]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Film Culture in Transition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 10 black and white illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Chapter One: Introduction --; Chapter Two: The City in Context --; Chapter Three: City of Light --; Chapter Four: City of Darkness --; Chapter Five: Divided City --; Chapter Six: Conclusion --; Notes --; Appendices --; Filmography --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048505258; 9783110700671; 9783111023786; 9783110662788
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048505258?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: Open Access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alastair Phillips.

The volume is the first-ever book-length study of the cinematic representation of Paris in the films of German èmigrè filmmakers, many of whom fled there as a refuge from Hitler. In coming to Paris-a privileged site in terms of production, exhibition, and film culture-these experienced professionals also encountered resistance: hostility toward Germans, anti-Semitism, and boycotts from a French industry afraid of losing jobs to foreigners. Phillips juxtaposes the cinematic portrayal of Paris in the films of Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Max Ophüls, Anatol Litvak, and others with the wider social and cultural debates about the city in cinema.