Enchanted by Cinema

Wilhelm Thiele between Vienna, Berlin, and Hollywood

Jan-Christopher Horak, Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

374 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-536-2 (ISBN)

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William Thiele is remembered today as the father of the sound film operetta with seminal classics such as Drei von der Tankstelle (1930). While often considered among the most accomplished directors of Late Weimar cinema, as an Austrian Jew he was vilified during the onset of the Nazi regime in 1933 and fled to the United States where he continued making films until the end of his career in 1960. Enchanted by Cinema closely examines the European musical film pioneer’s work and his cross-cultural perspective across forty years of filmography in Berlin and Hollywood to account for his popularity while discussing issues of ethnicity, exile, comedy, music, gender, and race.

Jan-Christopher Horak is former Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive. Previously he was Director at Munich Filmmuseum, and Curator, George Eastman Museum. He has had professorships in Rochester, Munich, Salzburg, UCLA, and Miami, and presently is teaching at Chapman. He has published more than three hundred articles and reviews in English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Swedish, Japanese, and Hebrew publications.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Foreword

David Thiele and Linda Thiele

Introduction

Jan-Christopher Horak and Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert

Part I: Wilhelm Thiele’s Early Career

Chapter 1. Towards Thiele: A Director in the Making

Philipp Stiasny

Chapter 2. Across Studio Borders: From Hurra, ich lebe (1928) to The Ghost Comes Home (1940)

Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert

Chapter 3. Modeling Female Agency: Wilhelm Thiele’s Adieu Macotte (1929)

Heike Klapdor

Part II: Thiele in Europe’s Sound Film Babel, 1929–1933

Chapter 4. From Liebeswalzer (1930) to Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1930): Thiele and the Formation of the UFA Sound Film Operetta

Michael Wedel

Chapter 5. “Why Settle So Low?”: Fantasies of Female Self-Fulfillment in Wilhelm Thiele’s Die Privatsekretärin (1931)

Christian Rogowski

Chapter 6. “Greater Success Than Ever Before in Your New Workshop”: Wilhelm Thiele in Britain

Geoff Brown

Chapter 7. “Fate Goes Like This, and Everything’s Gone”: Großfürstin Alexandra (1933), Exile, and Renunciation

Anjeana K. Hans

Part III: Thiele in Hollywood, 1935–1946

Chapter 8. Embracing the Off-White: Race and Sex in William Thiele’s Jungle Princess (1936)

Valerie Weinstein

Chapter 9. Times of Adjustment: Celebrated Innocence and Mass Production in Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937), Bridal Suite (1939), and Bad Little Angel (1940)

Imme Klages

Chapter 10. Me Thiele, You Tarzan

Marianna Torgovnick

Chapter 11. “I’m a Bit Gloomy This Evening.” Forgotten Noir: The Madonna’s Secret (1946)

Christian Cargnelli

Part IV: American Television and Post-War Germany, 1949–1960

Chapter 12. Thiele at Apex

Jan-Christopher Horak

Chapter 13. The Misfits Make America: Wilhelm Thiele’s The Lone Ranger Episodes

A. Dana Weber

Chapter 14. William Thiele’s Last Hurrah: Der letzte Fußgänger (1960) and Sabine und die 100 Männer (1960)

Jan-Christopher Horak

Conclusion

Jan-Christopher Horak and Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert

Coda

Filmography

Hans-Michael Bock

Interview with W. and B. Thiele

Jan-Christopher Horak

In His Brother’s Shadow: The Cinema of Eugen Thiele

Armin Loacker

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Film Europa
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80539-536-X / 180539536X
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-536-2 / 9781805395362
Zustand	Neuware