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Screening Europe in Australasia : transnational silent film before and after the rise of Hollywood
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- Creator
- Julie K. Allen
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Exeter, UK : University of Exeter Press, 2022
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781905816897, 9781905816873, 9781905816880, 1905816871
- OCLC
- on1253477281, on1342208926
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-416) and index.
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Film Distribution and Exhibition in Australasia before World War I -- 1. `the Window Of The World' -- Distribution and Exhibition of Early Film in Settler-Colonial Australasia -- 2. The Anglo-American Fathers of the Australian Combine -- Cosens Spencer, T.J. West, and J.D. Williams -- 3. Trans-Tasman Cinema Traffic -- Film Distribution and Exhibition in New Zealand -- pt. II European Film on Australasian Screens through 1917 -- 4. `their Work Stands Supreme' -- Pathee Freres, Sarah Bernhardt, and French Art Films -- 5. `The most important event in the annals of the biograph in Australia' -- The Triumph of Italian Historical Epics -- 6. `Like the hallmark on silver' -- The Unquestioned Quality of Nordic Films -- 7. The Female Faces of German Film Abroad -- Asta Nielsen, Henny Porten, and Madame Saharet -- 8. `We Fear No Combine' -- Clement Mason's European Film Imports in 1913 -- pt. III European Art Cinema in Competition with Hollywood -- 9. `Films as Foreign Offices' -- Mason Super Films' Promotion of Swedish and Italian Art Film in Interwar Australasia -- 10. The Rise of UFA, Cinema Art Films, and Anglo-German Solidarity Against Hollywood