University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pages: 222
Trim: 6¾ x 9¾
978-1-61147-433-6 • Hardback • May 2010 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
Paul Matthew St. Pierre is associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University.
St. Pierre (English, Simon Fraser U., British Columbia) recounts the life and career of German filmmaker Dupont (1891-1956), emphasizing the impact on British film of his work in Germany, Hollywood, and Britain. Stringing the biography from movie to move, he discusses such topics as /> as a precursor of his British Expressionism; , Anna May Wong, and the expressive blue light; , the pogrom, and Dupont's Jewish subjectivity; and the lighthouse invited the female antihero in .
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