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Film posters for Robert Siodmak’s The Dark Mirror ( Variety, October 16, 1946).
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German Cinema between
Hitler and Hollywood
lutz koepnick
University of California Press
berkeley
los angeles
london
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Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England
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178; and “Sirk and the Culture Industry: Zu neuen Ufern and The First Legion, ” Film Criticism 23, nos. 2 –3 (winter/spring 1999): 94 –121.
© 2002 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Koepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter)
The dark mirror : German cinema between Hitler and Hollywood / Lutz Koepnick.
p.
cm.
(Weimar and now ; 32)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 0-520-23310-7
(alk. paper) — isbn 0-520-23311-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Motion pictures— Germany—History. 2. Motion picture producers and directors—
Germany—Biography. 3. Germans— California—Los Angeles. I. Title. II. Series.
pn1993.5.g3 k645
2002
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2001007068
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