Hollywood Exiles and Emigres
I: Introduction to German Cinema
1A: An Overview of German Cinema: Central Questions
1B: How to Read Cinema – A Workshop
II: Transatlantic Careers in Early Cinema - The Example of Ernst Lubitsch
2A: Ernst Lubitsch and Early Cinema - Madame Dubarry (1919), The Merry Widow (1934)
2B: Transatlantic Careers - Ninotchka (1939).
III: Expressionist Horror - Paul Leni
3A: Hollywood and Berlin - Waxworks (1924), The Cat and the Canary (1927)
3B: Silent Film and Suspense - The Man Who Laughs (1928)
IV: Trouble in Paradise - Friedrich Murnau’s Unhappy Stay in Hollywood
4A: Murnau and the Sound of Silence - Sunrise (1927)
4B: Sunrise – Psychoanalysis and Embodied Transparency
V: Hollywood Mobilizes Against Nazi Germany – Bertolt Brecht
5A: German Exile Cinema - Hangmen Also Die (1943)
5B: Brecht Goes to Hollywood
VI: Film Noir I – Edgar Ulmer
6A: Creation of a Genre: Film Noir - Detour (1945)
6B: Detour – Eluding the Censors
VII: Film Noir II – Fritz Lang
7A: Fritz Lang – Epic Melodrama - Scarlet Street (1945)
7B: Censorship in the United States Film Industry
VIII: Re-Entry, Re-Education, and Re-Emigration
8A: Zero-Hour – Post-War Cinema; Democracy and Film - The Devil Came at Night (1957)
8B: UFA into DEFA and New Studios
IX: Melodrama & Gender – Douglas Sirk
9A: Melodrama and Ideology - All That Heaven Allows (1956)
9B: Transformative Melodrama
X: Melodrama and Race – R.W. Fassbinder
10A: Melodrama and Race - Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (Germany, 1974)
10B: Melodrama and Class – The Spectacle of Ideology
XI: The German View of America I – Werner Herzog
11A: Herzog’s Amerika - Stroszek (Germany, 1977)
11B: What is Ecstatic Truth?
XII: The German View of America II: The Film Industry – Wim Wenders
12A: The Director as Auteur - The State Of Things (Germany, 1982)
12B: Wender’s Hollywood – Death and Story
XIII: Stars of the Contemporary (Transatlantic) Screen
13A: German Stars - Air Force One (US 1996)
13B: The Blockbuster Auteur
XIV: Post-reunification Popular Culture
14A: German Film after Reunification - Lola Rennt (1998)
14B: New Directors and Directions
XV: Going to America to Die
15A: Heimat in the United States - Schultze Gets the Blues (2003)
15B: Future of Cinema - 360, XR, and Volumetric Experiences
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