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Universal, Germany, and ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT: A case study in crisis historiography

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dc.creatorWedel, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-26T11:38:22Z
dc.date.available2018-09-26T11:38:22Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractIn the years 1928 to 1932 the so-called coming of the sound film substantially changed the international film industry. As the new normative product, the sound film provoked necessary fundamental changes not only in the production and exhibition sectors – it also had a significant impact on distribution practices. With regard to transnational film distribution, the film industry’s new commodity threatened Hollywood’s hegemony on a world market that was about to diversify into countless distinct language barriers. As soon became clear, the hope (voiced by Louis B. Mayer in 1928) that the sound film would help to re-enforce English as cinema’s ‘universal language’ thanks to the worldwide popularity of Hollywood productions (and thus seamlessly continuing the internationalism of the silent picture) was based on a deceptive assessment of the impeding market situation, its economic determinants, and cultural dynamics. Instead, innovation and instability, creativity and crisis management were to govern the international film business for years to come.en
dc.identifier.doi10.5117/NECSUS2012.1.WEDE
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15044
dc.identifier.urihttp://necsus-ejms.org/test-site/universal-germany-and-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-a-case-study-in-crisis-historiography/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3196
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectDeutschlandde
dc.subjectWeimarer Republikde
dc.subjectUniversal Pictures (Los Angeles, Calif.)de
dc.subjectKrisede
dc.subjectGeschichtsschreibungde
dc.subjectSprachede
dc.subjectAudiotechnikde
dc.subjectGermanyen
dc.subjectUniversalen
dc.subjectcrisisen
dc.subjectfilmen
dc.subjecthistoriographyen
dc.subjectlanguageen
dc.subjectsounden
dc.subjecttechnologyen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.workALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (Film)(1930)
dc.titleUniversal, Germany, and ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT: A case study in crisis historiographyen
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationWedel, Michael (2012): Universal, Germany, and ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT: A case study in crisis historiography. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 1 (1), 126–147. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2012.1.WEDE.
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T05:16:24
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2012.1.WEDE
local.source.epage147
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage126
local.source.volume1
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/4291477-2
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