Visions of Vienna : : Narrating the City in 1920s and 1930s Cinema / / Alexandra Seibel.
Vienna, with its stunning architecture and unforgettable streetscape, has long provided a backdrop for filmmakers. Visions of Vienna offers a close look at how directors such as Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Max Ophüls made use of the city, and how the nostalgic glorification of the Habsbu...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Film Culture in Transition
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 30 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: Vienna in Cinema: A Traveling Image, 1920-40
- 2. Fairgrounds and Vineyards: Urban Topographies in the Viennese Films of Erich von Stroheim
- 3. Critical, Controversial, Conventional: Viennese Girls in Films by Ophüls, Feyder, Hochbaum, and Forst
- 4. Women and the Market of Modernity: G.W. Pabst's The Joyless Street (1925)
- 5. The Sound of Make-Believe: Ernst Lubitsch and the World of the Operetta
- 6. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index of Film Titles
- Index of Names and Subjects