Description
Book SynopsisThis study is a major appraisal of the contributions of German-speaking émigrés to British cinema from the late 1920s to the end of World War II.
Table of ContentsList of illustrations
Acknowedgments
1. Introduction
2. Transnational developments and migrants: the internationalisation
of British studios, 1927-33
Film Europe as prerequisite: transnational networks in European cinema
The thriving film industry in the UK and the UFA crisis
Elstree as centre of immigration: Ewald André Dupont and BIP
A new job for everyone? Immigration and the employment strategies of
British production companies in the late 1920s
Internationalism and the ‘unpleasant emotional appeal’:
Cosmopolitan émigré films and their reception in Britain
3. Refugees from the Third Reich: 1933-39
British immigration policies and the internment of émigrés
London’s émigré community and exile film genres
Émigrés and politics: censorship and propaganda before the war
Émigrés and displacement: Representations of the diaspora and recollections of the Heimat
Resentment and protectionism: Public opinion and the
Association of Cinematograph Technicians (ACT)
4. ‘What a difference a war makes’: German-speaking ‘enemy aliens’
and valuable allies, 1939-45
British anti-Nazi films and German-speaking personnel
Representations of émigrés after the declaration of war
5. Conclusions: The Legacy of German-speaking Filmmakers in Britain
Afterthought: Postwar Émigré Careers and the
Question of Remigration, 1945-49
Sources
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