[ecrea] New Book on National Cinema Cultures/German-speaking Personnel and British Cinema

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*The Continental Connection: German-speaking Emigres and British Cinema, 
1927-45
*Manchester University Press
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*This study is a major appraisal of the contributions of German-speaking 
emigres to British cinema from the late 1920s to the end of World War 
II. Through a series of film analyses and case studies, it challenges 
notions of a self-sufficient British national cinema by advancing the 
assumption that filmmakers from Berlin, Munich and Vienna had a major 
influence on aesthetics, themes and narratives, technical innovation, 
the organisation of work and the introduction of apprenticeship schemes. 
Whether they came voluntarily or as refugees, their contributions and 
expertise helped to consolidate the studio system and ultimately made 
possible the establishment of a viable British film industry. Hochscherf 
talks about such figures as Ewald Andre Dupont, Alfred Junge, Oscar 
Werndorff, Mutz Greenbaum and Werner Brandes, and such companies as 
Korda's London Film Productions, Powell and Pressburger's The Archers 
and Michael Balcon's Gaumont-British.

*Tobias Hochscherf *is Professor of audiovisual media at the University 
of Applied Sciences Kiel in Germany. He has published widely on European 
cinema and television history. His research interests include British 
cinema, early television history, contemporary reality television, and 
transnational film cultures.