Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany Volume 6

by Thomas J. Saunders

The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion picture. The invasion of Germany by American films, which began in 1921 with overlapping waves of sensationalist serials, slapstick shorts, society pictures, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520083547
• ISBN13: 9780520083547
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.5"