The Dark Mirror: German Cinema Between Hitler and Hollywood

by Lutz Koepnick

Book Overview

Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas--Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's--in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930s until the mid 1950s, showing how Nazi filmmakers appropriated Hollywood conventions and how German film exiles reworked German cultural material in their efforts to find a working base in the Hollywood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520233115
• ISBN13: 9780520233119
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"