Screening Transcendence: Film Under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933-1938

by Robert von Dassanowsky

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,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253033624
• ISBN13: 9780253033628
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher