Author: Koepnick, Lutz Peter
Title: The Dark Mirror : German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood
Description: Berkeley [CA], Univ. of California Press, (2002). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xii,322 pp, Series: Weimar and Now, 32.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ An analysis of the complicated relationship between two cinemas - Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's - in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The text 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 studio system. Through detailed readings of specific films, Koepnick provides a vivid sense of the give and take between German and American cinema" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: German Cinema History, Popular Film, Nazi Germany, Motion Pictures, , , , ,