'Film Europe' And 'Film America'
Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939
Distributed for University of Exeter Press
400 pages
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9-3/10 x 6-1/10
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© 1999
A volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reactions of the American film industry to these plans to rival its hegemony. The book has an impressive array of top scholars from both America and Europe, including Thomas Elsaesser, Kristin Thompson and Ginette Vincendeau, as well as essays by some younger scholars who have recently completed new archival research. It also includes a number of primary documents selected by the contributors to illuminate their arguments and provide a stimulus to further research.
This book is a volume in the series Exeter Studies in Film History, and represents a major contribution to cinema scholarship as well as reflecting a strong interest in an area of study currently being developed in university departments and at the British Film Institute.
Winner Prix Jean Mitry 2000
Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies
“Higson and Maltby’s work provides a much needed contribution to the limited scholarly work on film distribution history . . . ‘Film Europe’ and ‘Film America’ presents a major addition to film scholarship and, hopefully, will instigate further research in this area of cinema studies.” –Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies, 2001
Screening the Past
“An interesting and useful anthology which focuses on various discourses surrounding the possibility of coordinated European efforts to offset the dominance of the American film industry in the 1920s ... relevant not only for film historians, but also for those whose work centres on considerations of globalisation and cultural exchange more broadly.” –Screening the Past, May 2000
English Historical Review
“Usefully situates national developments, movements and cinematic expressions of local cultures in a broader international context, analysing the process of reciprocity, collaboration, exchange and resistance that animated the era on both sides of the Atlantic.” –English Historical Review
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1. "Film Europe" and "Film America": An Introduction
Andrew Higson and Richard Maltby
2. "Temporary American Citizens": Cultural Anxieties and Industrial Strategies in the Americanisation of European Cinema
Richard Maltby and Ruth Vasey
3. The Rise and Fall of Film Europe
Kristin Thompson
4. The Cinema and the League of Nations
Richard Maltby
5. Cultural Policy and Industrial Practice: Film Europe and the International Film Congresses of the 1920s
Andrew Higson
6. Options for American Foreign Distribution: United Artists in Europe, 1919-1930
Mike Walsh
7. Germany and Film Europe
Thomas J. Saunders
8. Hollywood's "Foreign War": The Effect of National Commercial Policy on the Emergence of the American Film Hegemony in France, 1920-1929
Jens Ulff-Møller
9. Hollywood Babel: The Coming of Sound and the Multiple Language Version
9. Hollywood Babel: The Coming of Sound and the Multiple Language Version
Ginette Vincendeau
10. Hollywood's Hegemonic Strategies: Overcoming French Nationalism with the Advent of Sound
Martine Danan
11. Made in Germany: Multiple-Language Versions and the Early German Sound Cinema
Joseph Garncarz
12. Polyglot Films for an International Market: E.A. Dupont, the British Film Industry and the Idea of a European Cinema
Andrew Higson
13. Negotiating Exoticism: Hollywood, Film Europe and the Cultural Reception of Anna May Wong
Tim Bergfelder
Documents
List of Documents
Group 1: German Conceptions of "Film Europe"
Group 2: Kontingents, Quotas and the American Response
Group 3: European Access to the American Market and the International Film: J.D. Williams and Erich Pommer
Index
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