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Author:
Allen, Julie K., author.
Title:
Screening Europe in Australasia : transnational silent film before and after the rise of Hollywood / Julie K. Allen.
Publisher:
University of Exeter Press,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
xiv, 462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subject:
1900-1999
Motion pictures--Australasia--History--History--20th century.
Silent films--Europe--History--20th century.
History.
Motion pictures--Social aspects.
Australia.
New Zealand.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-416) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 10. The Rise of UFA, Cinema Art Films, and Anglo-German Solidarity Against Hollywood. 1. `the Window Of The World' -- Distribution and Exhibition of Early Film in Settler-Colonial Australasia -- 2. The Anglo-American Fathers of the Australian Combine -- Cosens Spencer, T.J. West, and J.D. Williams -- 3. Trans-Tasman Cinema Traffic -- Film Distribution and Exhibition in New Zealand -- pt. II European Film on Australasian Screens through 1917 -- 4. `their Work Stands Supreme' -- Pathee Freres, Sarah Bernhardt, and French Art Films -- 5. `The most important event in the annals of the biograph in Australia' -- The Triumph of Italian Historical Epics -- 6. `Like the hallmark on silver' -- The Unquestioned Quality of Nordic Films -- 7. The Female Faces of German Film Abroad -- Asta Nielsen, Henny Porten, and Madame Saharet -- 8. `We Fear No Combine' -- Clement Mason's European Film Imports in 1913 -- pt. III European Art Cinema in Competition with Hollywood -- 9. `Films as Foreign Offices' -- Mason Super Films' Promotion of Swedish and Italian Art Film in Interwar Australasia -- 10. The Rise of UFA, Cinema Art Films, and Anglo-German Solidarity Against Hollywood.
Series:
Exeter studies in film history
ISBN:
1905816871
9781905816873
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1253477281
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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