Enchanted by Cinema - (Film Europa) by Jan-Christopher Horak & Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert (Hardcover)

About the Book

Enchanted by Cinema explores the films of the European music film pioneer William Thiele, as well as his career as an exile in Hollywood. Examining a wide range of the director's filmography, the contributors address a variety of political, aesthetic and cross-cultural issues.

Book Synopsis

Enchanted by Cinema explores the films of the European music film pioneer William Thiele, as well as his career as an exile in Hollywood. Examining a wide range of the director's filmography, the contributors address a variety of political, aesthetic and cross-cultural issues.

About the Author

Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert is PhD candidate at the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities with a gender studies concentration. His publications include a chapter in Goethe als Literatur-Figur (Wallstein Verlag, 2016) and a contribution to Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema (Berghahn Books, 2020). In his dissertation, he focuses on lost films of the late Weimar Republic.