{"product_id":"screening-transcendence-film-under-austrofascism-and-the-hollywood-hope-19331938-9780253033628","title":"Screening Transcendence  Film under Austrofascism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighly recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDassanowsky's carefully researched book provides an excellent account of Austrian film from those years and also forms, thanks to the inclusion of titles and production details of films from the era, a good basis for further research.\u003c\/p\u003e * FILMBLATT *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eScreening Transcendence \u003c\/i\u003eis so rich and informative that a short review can barely do justice to this important and interesting monograph. There is no doubt that this is a book that everyone interested in Austria during the 1930s should read.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Austrian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author is at home in both the European and the American cultural worlds, and he utilizes this to best advantage in his book. Anyone seeking an expert presentation of the particular influence Austrian film culture has had on Hollywood is well served by this meticulous and richly detailed work.\u003c\/p\u003e * German Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eScreening Transcendence\u003c\/em\u003e undoubtedly constitutes a major contribution to the study of Austrian Cinema.....This little known episode in film history which Dassanowsky has uncovered ... tells of the unfolding drama of the Austrians' attempt to work with Hollywood studios in an effort to escape German pressure. He attributes the failure of an Austrian-Hollywood partnership to the American industry's commercial interests and its fear of offending German markets, as well as the strong German influence in Hollywood. \u003ci\u003eScreening Transcendence \u003c\/i\u003edoes a great service by introducing this era to English-reading audiences... utterly fascinating....\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e * Contemporary Austrian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Dassanowsky's \u003ci\u003eScreening Transcendence\u003c\/i\u003e provides the most comprehensive English-language examination to date of the complex and often neglected top of cinema under the Austrofascist regime of 1933 to 1938.\u003c\/p\u003e * Monatshefte *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Structures\u003cbr\u003e1. System of Faith and Aesthetics of Loss: Austrian Cultural Politics in the First Republic and the Christian Corporate State \u003cbr\u003e2. Scopic Regimes: Notes on Newsreel and Culture Film Production, the Legacy of Baroque and Fin de Siècle Vienna, and Political Catholicism in Public Spectacle\u003cbr\u003e3. Against Nazism and with Catholicism? Two Film Industries and the Jewish Filmmaker's Conundrum \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Genres and Types\u003cbr\u003e4. Cinema Baroque: Reconsidering the Willi Forst\/Walter Reisch Viennese Film Genre and its Trans\/National\/ist Value\u003cbr\u003e5. Projecting Transcendence: \u003ci\u003eEmigrantenfilm\u003c\/i\u003e, the Church,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand the Construction of a Catholic-Political Identity in \u003ci\u003eSingende Jugend\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDer Pfarrer von Kirchfeld\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e6. Gendering the Crusade: Female Types and Sexuality in Feature Film\u003cbr\u003e7. Tales of the Patriarchy: Of Cavaliers, Cads, and the Common Man \u003cbr\u003e8. Reasonable Fantasies: Cine-Operetta, the \u003ci\u003eSängerfilm\u003c\/i\u003e, and Sociocritical Music Film\u003cbr\u003e9. New Order Out of Chaos: The Austrian Screwball and Hybrid Comedy \u003cbr\u003e10. Contemporary Conflicts: Experimentalism, Controversy, and the Question of National Film Style \u003cbr\u003e11. Snow Blinded: The Alps versus Vienna in Film at the End of the Regime \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Locations\u003cbr\u003e12. From Rome to the Hollywood Hope: Shared Aesthetics, the 1936\/37 Vienna-Hollywood Co-Production Plan, and Cine-Economic Brinkmanship with Berlin\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue \u003cbr\u003eFilmography: List of Austrian Feature Films 1933-1938\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400577458519,"sku":"9780253033628","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253033628.jpg?v=1730471025","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/screening-transcendence-film-under-austrofascism-and-the-hollywood-hope-19331938-9780253033628","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}