| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 423 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Half Title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Structures; 1. System of Faith and Aesthetics of Loss: Austrian Cultural Politics in the First Republic and the Christian Corporate State; 2. Scopic Regimes: Notes on Newsreel and Culture Film Production, the Legacy of Baroque and Fin de Siècle Vienna, and Political Catholicism in Public Spectacle; 3. Against Nazism and with Catholicism? Two Film Industries and the Jewish Filmmaker's Conundrum; Part 2: Genres, Narratives, Contexts |
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4. Cinema Baroque: Reconsidering the Willi Forst / Walter Reisch Viennese Film Genre and its Trans/National/ist Value5. Projecting Transcendence: Emigrantenfilm, the Church, and the Construction of a Catholic-Political Identity in Singende Jugend and Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld; 6. Gendering the Crusade: Female Types and Sexuality in Feature Film; 7. Tales of the Patriarchy: Of Cavaliers, Cads, and the Common Man; 8. Reasonable Fantasies: Cine-Operetta, Sängerfilm, and Sociocritical Music Film; 9. New Order Out of Chaos: The Austrian Screwball and Hybrid Comedy |
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10. Contemporary Conflicts: Experimentalism, Controversy, and the Question of National Film Style11. Snow Blinded: The Alps versus Vienna in Film at the End of the Regime; Part 3: Locations; 12. From Rome to the Hollywood Hope: Shared Aesthetics, the 1936-1937 Vienna-Hollywood Coproduction Plan, and Cine-Economic Brinkmanship with Berlin; Epilogue; Filmography; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
During the 1930s, Austrian film production companies developed a process to navigate the competing demands of audiences in Nazi Germany and those found in broader Western markets. In Screening Transcendence, film historian Robert Dassanowsky explores how Austrian filmmakers during the Austrofascist period (1933'1938) developed two overlapping industries: "Aryanized" films for distribution in Germany, its largest market, and "Emigrantenfilm," which employed EmigrE and Jewish talent that appealed to international audiences. Through detailed archival research in both Vienna and the United States, Dassanowsky reveals what was culturally, socially, and politically at stake in these two simultaneous and overlapping film industries. Influenced by French auteurism, admired by Italian cinephiles, and ardently remade by Hollywood, these period Austrian films demonstrate a distinctive regional style mixed with transnational influences. Combining brilliant close readings of individual films with thoroughly informed historical and cultural observations, Dassanowsky presents the story of a nation and an industry mired in politics, power, and intrigue on the brink of Nazi occupation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 19, 2018) |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Austria -- History -- 20th century
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Motion picture industry -- Political aspects -- Austria -- History -- 20th century
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Motion picture industry -- Austria -- History -- 20th century
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Fascism and motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Fascism and motion pictures
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Motion picture industry
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Motion picture industry -- Political aspects
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Motion pictures
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Austria
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018013278 |
| ISBN |
9780253033635 |
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0253033632 |
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9780253034243 |
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0253034248 |
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