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Visions of Vienna : Narrating the City in 1920s and 1930s Cinema / Alexandra Seibel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Film Culture in TransitionPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) : 30 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9789462981898
  • 9789048531684
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 Habsburg era can be seen as directly tied to crucial issues of modernity. Films set in Vienna, Alexandra Seibel shows, persistently articulate the experience of displacement due to emigration, changing gender relations and anti-feminism, class distinction, and anti-Semitism, themes that run counter to the ongoing mystification of Vienna as the incarnation of "waltz dreams" and schmaltz.
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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

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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 Habsburg era can be seen as directly tied to crucial issues of modernity. Films set in Vienna, Alexandra Seibel shows, persistently articulate the experience of displacement due to emigration, changing gender relations and anti-feminism, class distinction, and anti-Semitism, themes that run counter to the ongoing mystification of Vienna as the incarnation of "waltz dreams" and schmaltz.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)