Destination London German-Speaking Emigrs and British Cinema, 1925-1950 [Paperback]

The legacy of emigr?s in the British film industry, from the silent film era until after the Second World War, has been largely neglected in the scholarly literature.Destination Londonis the first book to redress this imbalance. Focusing on areas such as exile, genre, technological transfer, professional training and education, cross-cultural exchange and representation, it begins by mapping the reasons for this neglect before examining the contributions made to British cinema by emigr? directors, actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, set designers, and composers. It goes on to assess the cultural and economic contexts of transnational industry collaborations in the 1920s, artistic cosmopolitanism in the 1930s, and anti-Nazi propaganda in the 1940s.

Tim Bergfelderis Professor in Film at the University of Southampton. He is the author ofInternational Adventures: Popular German Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s(2005). His co-edited or co-authored volumes includeThe German Cinema Book(2002),The Titanic in Myth and Memory: Representations in Visual and Literary Culture(2004), andFilm Architecture and the Transnational Imagination(2007).

&addresses one of the historically most neglected topics in exile studies&[The] chapters&are of a very high quality, written in an accessible and engaging style& Hopefully,Destination Londonwill inspire more examinations of German speaking ?migr? film makers in Britain.? ??Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

&the volume not only makes a significant contribution to film history, it also further intervenes in broader contemporary debates on transnationalism in and beyond Germany. The scope of this intervention is drawn out admirably in Bergfelders introduction.? ??Monatshefte