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Screening Europe in Australasia: Transnational Silent Film Before and After the Rise of Hollywood

Screening Europe in Australasia: Transnational Silent Film Before and After the Rise of Hollywood

Hardcover

Series: Exeter Studies in Film History

Australia & OceaniaFilm & Video ArtArt & Popular Culture

ISBN10: 1905816871
ISBN13: 9781905816873
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Published: Apr 19 2022
Pages: 484
Weight: 2.02
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Through a detailed study of the circulation of European silent film in Australasia in the early twentieth century, this book challenges the historical myopia that treats Hollywood films as having always dominated global film culture.

Before World War I, European silent feature films were ubiquitous in Australia and New Zealand, teaching Antipodean audiences about Continental cultures and familiarizing them with glamorous European stars, from Asta Nielsen to Emil Jannings. After the rise of Hollywood and then the shift to sound film, this history-and its implications for cross-cultural exchange-was lost. Julie K. Allen recovers that history, with its flamboyant participants, transnational currents, innovative genres, and geopolitical complications, bringing it all vividly to life.

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