The Dark Mirror

An examination of the mutual influence of Hollywood movies and German cinema from 1930 to 1950, and the first book to make clear the extent of the German cinema influence on the American film industry.

Lutz Koepnick is Associate Professor of German and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power (1999) and Nothungs Modernitat: Wagners "Ring" und die Poesie der Macht im neunzehnten Jahrhundert (1994).

List of Illustrations

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction: The Dark Mirror

1

(22)

PART 1 HOLLYWOOD IN BERLIN, 1933-1939

Sounds of Silence: Nazi Cinema and the Quest for a National Culture Industry

23

(27)

Incorporating the Underground: Curtis Bernhardt's The Tunnel

50

(22)

Engendering Mass Culture: Zarah Leander and the Economy of Desire

72

(27)

Siegfried Rides Again: Nazi Westerns and Modernity

99

(38)

PART 2 BERLIN IN HOLLYWOOD, 1939-1955

Wagner at Warner's: German Sounds and Hollywood Studio Visions

137

(27)

Berlin Noir: Robert Siodmak's Hollywood

164

(37)

Pianos, Priests, and Popular Culture: Sirk, Lang, and the Legacy of American Populism

201

(33)

Isolde Resurrected: Curtis Bernhardt's Interrupted Melody

234

(25)

Epilogue: ``Talking about Germany''

259

(14)

Notes

273

(36)

Index

309

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