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  • Mars in Aries

    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    **A haunting novel of love, fate and war from the Austrian master and acclaimed author of Baron Bagge and Count Luna ('A book so astonishing I immediately re-read it' – Patti Smith)‘He’d had the feeling that he was expected there, on that day. But by whom?’Vienna, 1939. Lieutenant Wallmoden is preparing to take part in a mysterious ‘military exercise’ when he meets the austerely beautiful Baroness ... Leer más

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  • Screening Transcendence

    Film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933-1938

    During the 1930s, Austrian film production companies developed a process to navigate the competing demands of audiences in Nazi Germany and those found in broader Western markets. In Screening Transcendence, film historian Robert Dassanowsky explores how Austrian filmmakers during the Austrofascist period (1933–1938) developed two overlapping industries: "Aryanized" films for distribution in ... Leer más

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  • World Film Locations: Vienna

    Edición de Robert Dassanowsky ...
    World 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 ... Leer más

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  • They Shall Not Have Me

    The Capture, Forced Labor, and Escape of a French Prisoner in World War II

    The French painter Jean Hélion’s unique and deeply moving account of his experiences in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps prefigures the even darker stories that would emerge from the concentration camps. This serious adventure tale begins with Hélion’s infantry platoon fleeing from the German army and warplanes as they advanced through France in the early days of the war. The soldiers chant as they ... Leer más

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  • The German Genius

    Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century

    de Peter Watson ...
    A "compelling" history of German cultural and intellectual development from 1750 to the twentieth century ( Financial Times).From the end of the Baroque era and the death of Bach to the rise of Hitler, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among Western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force. By 1933, Germans had won more Nobel Prizes than the British and Americans combined ... Leer más

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  • Weimar Culture

    The Outsider as Insider

    de Peter Gay ...
    A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles.First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I ... Leer más

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  • The Red Collar

    A Novel

    "A beautifully memorable and unusual story about war and what it does to us" from the bestselling author and founder of Doctors Without Borders ( The Independent).In 1919, in a small town in the province of Berry, France, under the crushing heat of summer, a war hero is being held prisoner in an abandoned barracks. In front of the door to his prison, a mangy dog barks night and day. Miles from ... Leer más

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  • Leni Riefenstahl

    A Life

    Dancer, actress, mountaineer, and director Leni Riefenstahl's uncompromising will and audacious talent for self-promotion appeared unmatched—until 1932, when she introduced herself to her future protector and patron: Adolf Hitler. Known internationally for two of the films she made for him, Triumph of the Will and Olympia, Riefenstahl's demanding and obsessive style introduced unusual angles, new ... Leer más

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  • War and Turpentine

    A novel

    Traducido por David McKay ...
    Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the YearAn Economist Best Book of the YearThe life of Urbain Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I—lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather’s story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked ... Leer más

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  • Dietrich & Riefenstahl

    Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives

    de Karin Wieland ...
    Traducido por Shelley Frisch, Ph.D. ...
    Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography)Named of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post and the Boston GlobeMagisterial in scope, this dual biography examines two complex lives that began alike but ended on opposite sides of the century’s greatest conflict.Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, born less than a year apart, lived so close to each other that ... Leer más

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  • World Film Locations: Berlin

    Edición de Susan Ingram ...
    One of the most dynamic capital cities of the twenty-first century, Berlin also has one of the most tumultuous modern histories. A city that came of age, in many senses, with the cinema, it has been captured on film during periods of exurberance, devastation, division and reconstruction. World Film Locations: Berlin offers a broad overview of these varied cinematic representations.Covering an ... Leer más

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  • Weimar Cinema

    An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era

    Edición de Noah Isenberg ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction, avant-garde and fantasy films, sexual intrigues and love stories, the classics of silent cinema and Germany's first talkies, each chapter ... Leer más

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