The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945University of California Press, 1 jan 1999 - 451 pagina's Universum-Film AG -- best known by its signature logo, Ufa -- was once the largest, most exciting movie company in Europe. Founded by the German High Command as a propaganda medium during World War I, and always central to Germany's nationalistic big-business interests, Ufa was also home to the most innovative talents of the Weimar Republic. Fritz Lang, Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, and Ernst Lubitsch were Ufa stars; Metropolis, The Blue Angel, and Dr. Mabuse were only a few of its finest works. From its dazzling theaters, to its state-of-the-art studios and processing labs, from its comprehensive multimedia publicity campaigns to its avant-garde art films, Ufa challenged Hollywood for cultural dominance and market share in Jazz Age Europe. But the story grows darker after the simultaneous advent of sound films and National Socialism. The story of Ufa under Hitler, when technically superb films continued to be made, is the story of the corruption and destruction of this vital company by the state that had brought it into existence. |
Inhoudsopgave
Preview | 7 |
Ludendorffs Golem and How It Came into the World | 29 |
The First Year of | 38 |
Lay Down Your Arms Cinema and Revolution | 48 |
Ufa Goes Abroad | 61 |
Inflation and Expansion | 76 |
Ufa Films in 192022 | 85 |
The Builders Guild in Ufas Studios | 97 |
Ufa and the Reich Film Guild | 229 |
Consumerism Eroticism and Cinema in the Nazi State | 236 |
Architecture Film and Death | 247 |
Ufa under State Ownership | 255 |
Newsreels Cultural Films and Education for War | 266 |
Propaganda and Unpolitical Entertainment before the War | 274 |
Soldiers of Art? The Stars of Ufa | 289 |
Ufa Goes to War | 303 |
The Aesthetics of the Grandiose in Ufas Theaters | 111 |
The Cathedral in Crisis | 121 |
Ufa and the Intellectuals | 131 |
Was There an Ufa Style? The Limits of Illusion | 146 |
Ufa under Hugenberg | 158 |
German Musicality and the Arrival of Sound Film | 173 |
The Last Years of the Republic | 186 |
PART | 203 |
The Year 1933 | 205 |
Converting Ufa into a StateControlled Company | 221 |
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