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Driven to darkness: Jewish émigré directors and the rise of film noir

Vincent Brook c2009 © Rutgers University Press
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  • 9780813546292
  • 9780813546308
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • 1 Introduction (page 1)
  • 2 Jews in Germany: Torn Between Two Worlds (page 22)
  • 3 Jews and Expressionism: "Performing High and Low" (page 38)
  • 4 The Father of Film Noir: Fritz Lang (page 58)
  • 5 Fritz Lang in Hollywood (page 79)
  • 6 The French Connection: Robert Siodmak (page 104)
  • 7 Viennese Twins: Billy and Willy Wilder (page 124)
  • 8 The ABZ's of Film Noir: Otto Preminger and Edgar G. Ulmer (page 145)
  • 9 Woman's Directors: Curtis Bernhardt and Max Ophuls (page 167)
  • 10 Pathological Noir, Popular Noir, and an Act of Violence: John Brahm, Anatole Litvak, Fred Zinnemann (page 185)
  • Appendix: American Film Noirs by Jewish Émigré Directors (page 213)
  • Notes (page 215)
  • Bibliography (page 261)
  • Index (page 269)
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