| E. A. DuPont and His Contribution to British Film Contributor(s): St Pierre, Paul Matthew (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611474337 ISBN-13: 9781611474336 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press OUR PRICE: $95.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production - History | Reference |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| Physical Information: 222 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book discusses the life and career of German Jewish filmmaker Ewald Andre Dupont (1861-1956), as a journalist, screen writer, and director in Berlin, 1913-25, 1931-33, a director at British International Pictures, 1926-31, and a B-movie director in Hollywood, 1925-26, 1933-56. Having apprenticed with Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Ernst Lubitsch, and Fritz Lang in Berlin, where he distinguished himself with Das alte Gesetz (1923) and Variete (1925), Dupont launched his career at 'the British Hollywood' of British International Pictures, where he contributed to the studio's international style, experimented with emergent sound technologies, made the world's first multilingual sound pictures, and, in the most creative phase of his career, directed the feature films Moulin Rouge (1928), Piccadilly (1929), Atlantic (1930), Two Worlds (1931), and Cape Forlorn (1931), which along with Variete, provide the focus of this academic study. |