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

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Main Author: Brook, Vincent, 1946-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Jews in Germany : torn between two worlds
  • Jews and expressionism : "performing high and low"
  • The father of film noir : Fritz Lang
  • Fritz Lang in Hollywood
  • The French connection : Robert Siodmak
  • Viennese twins : Billy and Willy Wilder
  • The ABZs of film noir : Otto Preminger and Edgar G. Ulmer
  • Woman's directors : Curtis Bernhardt and Max Ophuls
  • Pathological noir, populist noir, and an act of violence : John Brahm, Anatole Litvak, Fred Zinnemann.