Description
Book SynopsisWorld Film Locations: Vienna provides a panorama of international motion pictures shot on location in Austria's once imperical capital. Informative reviews of 46 film scenes and evocative essays examine for the first time Vienna's relationship to cinema outside the waltz fantasies shot in the studios of Hollywood, London, Paris, Berlin... and Vienna. Illustrations and screen-grabs are set alongside current images, as well as city maps locating ‘cinematic Vienna’. A Vienna at the crossroads of a turbulent history, as a source of great music and literature, and a site of world-famous architecture ranging from gothic cathedrals and baroque palaces to Jugendstil (Vienna's art nouveau) to the eco-challenges of the postmodern is revealed. Spotlight essays cover the images that evoke the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; the pioneering filmmaking of Willi Forst and Walter Reisch in the 1930s; Vienna's role in the entertainment cinema of the Third Reich; opulent royal epics of the 1950s and the city as backdrop for international moviemaking; Jewish filmmakers and their take on lost cultural imagery; and a startling New Wave cinema from filmmakers such as Michael Haneke, Barbara Albert and Ulrich Seidl.
Trade Review'Meticulous, knowledgeable and beautiful – these are rarely found together. I am grateful for this exceptional book about film and about Vienna.It entices one to further investigations of this complex city.' -- Götz Spielmann * Oscar-nominated Austrian director of Antares and Revanche *
'World Film Locations Vienna sheds new light on the movies shot in the Austrian capital – and on the city itself.' * Austrian Information, Washington DC *
Table of ContentsMaps/Scenes
Scenes 1-8 1922 - 1936
Scenes 9-16 1936 - 1955
Scenes 17-24 1957 - 1976
Scenes 25-32 1976 - 1986
Scenes 33-39 1987 - 2001
Scenes 40-46 2001 - 2011
Essays
Vienna: City of the Imagination – Michael Burri
Vienna Imperial at Home and Abroad: The City as Film Myth in the 1930s and 1940s – Joseph W. Moser
Vienna and the Films of Louise Kolm-Veltée – Robert Dassanowsky
The Jewish Topography of Filmic Vienna – Dagmar C. G. Lorenz
Vienna in Film 1945–55: Building a Post-War Identity – Mary Wauchope
Wonder Wheel: The Cinematic Prater – Todd Herzog
The Spaces of The Other Vienna in New Austrian Film – Nikhil Sathe
