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Book Description
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.
"Film Europe" and "Film America" is the latest 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.
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About the Author
Andrew Higson is Senior Lecturer in Film studies, University of East Anglia. He is the author of Waving the Flag: Constructing a National Cinema in Britain (OUP, 1995), and editor of Dissolving Views: Key Writings on British Cinema (Cassell, 1996). Richard Maltby is Professor of Film Studies, Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of numerous essays and books on the history of American cinema, including Hollywood Cinema: an Introduction (Blackwell, 1996).
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Film Europe and Film America: Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939 (Exeter Studies in Film History),Andrew Higson,Richard Maltby,University of Exeter Press,0859895459,Cinema/Film: Book,Film & Video - General,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Modern - 20th Century,Motion Picture Industry,Performing Arts,Europe,Films, cinema,Inter-war period, 1918-1939,USA
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