Enchanted by Cinema: Wilhelm Thiele between Vienna, Berlin, and Hollywood (Film Europa, 29)

Enchanted by Cinema: Wilhelm Thiele between Vienna, Berlin, and Hollywood (Film Europa, 29)
by: Jan-Christopher Horak (Editor),Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert(Editor)
Publisher:Berghahn Books
Publication Date: May 3, 2024
Language:English
Print Length:374 pages
ISBN-10:180539536X
ISBN-13:9781805395362
Book Description
William Thiele is remembered today as the father of the sound film operetta with seminal classics such as Drei von der Tankstelle (1930). While often considered among the most accomplished directors of Late Weimar cinema, as an Austrian Jew he was vilified during the onset of the Nazi regime in 1933 and fled to the United States where he continued making films until the end of his career in 1960. Enchanted by Cinema closely examines the European musical film pioneer’s work and his cross-cultural perspective across forty years of filmography in Berlin and Hollywood to account for his popularity while discussing issues of ethnicity, exile, comedy, music, gender, and race.
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William Thiele is remembered today as the father of the sound film operetta with seminal classics such as Drei von der Tankstelle (1930). While often considered among the most accomplished directors of Late Weimar cinema, as an Austrian Jew he was vilified during the onset of the Nazi regime in 1933 and fled to the United States where he continued making films until the end of his career in 1960. Enchanted by Cinema closely examines the European musical film pioneer’s work and his cross-cultural perspective across forty years of filmography in Berlin and Hollywood to account for his popularity while discussing issues of ethnicity, exile, comedy, music, gender, and race. Read more