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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The Ambitions of Hollywood and the Transformations of German National Cinema

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16520164
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field ヨーロッパ語系文学
Research InstitutionKumamoto University

Principal Investigator

TANAKA Yuji  Kumamoto University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (60040490)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KATO Mikirou  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Associate Professor, 大学院・人間環境学研究科, 助教授 (60185874)
Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2005
KeywordsParufamet agreements / Ufa / German National Cinema / Hollywood / E.Lubitsch / F.Lang / "Metropolis" / F.W.Murnau
Research Abstract

The research in Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv Berlin and Deutsches Institut fur Filmkunde in Frankfurt gave the head Investigator (TANAKA) several important suggestions of German National Cinema.
The international success of The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari confirmed that films with 'typical' German Styles could be profitable and that only emphasis on the national would make German companies competitive internationally. Caligari was part of brief export wave that started in 1920 with Passion (the American title of Lubitsch's Duarry) and so forth. The positive reception of these films in the United States provoked fears of a 'German invasion' and prompeted several studios to eliminate the unwanted competition by inviting some of the major players to Hollywood : E.Lubitsch and P.Negri as early as 1922, and E.Pommer, F.W.Murnau and E.Jannings in 1926.
While in 1925 production of Metropolis was in full swing, Ufa's board of directors had to admit that the Konzern was on the brisk of bankruptcy. Company … More assets no longer covered the enormous debts, Ufa enterd into partnership with Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer known as Parufamet, become the cynosure of critical reaction against Hollywood's role in Germany. Parufamet represented the end of the golden age of the German cinema.
The Podeneone Silent Film Festival gave the researcher (KATO) a full of range of corpus of films, which made it possible for him to grasp the whole context in which the emigrant film makers from Germany to the USA were situated. For instance, Fritz Lang, one of the most influential Jewish film directors through the film history, emigrated or exiled from Germany to the USA in 1933. Lang found in Hollywood a Jewish/German atmosphere in which he and other Jewish film makers felt at ease in making films. That atmosphere had been established throughout the 1920s, during which Hollywood gained a control over the European film market, especially Germany. Lots of excellent German film directors were incorporated into Hollywood in the 1920s. This phenomenon explains what the internationalization of the film industry went through. In those days Germany and the USA were considered the top of the Hollywood film industry meant incorporation of talented foreign film makers, since the USA was originally a nation state of immigrants. Therefore German film makers were needed in the USA throughout the 1920s. The similar phenomena take places at every stage of Hollywood film history : in the 1980s Dutch film makers were incorporated into Hollywood ; and in 1990s Chinese film makers were. Hollywood has been avid in incorporating talented foreign film makers in its own necessary development. Less

  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2006 2005

All Journal Article (6 results) Book (4 results)

  • [Journal Article] ワイマール映画研究序説2006

    • Author(s)
      田中雄次
    • Journal Title

      熊本大学文学部社会学研究室紀要 1巻

      Pages: 1-92

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] ハリウッドの野望とドイツ国民映画の変容2006

    • Author(s)
      田中雄次
    • Journal Title

      熊本大学社会文化研究 4巻

      Pages: 79-90

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Ambitions of Hollywood and the Transformation of German National Cinema2006

    • Author(s)
      TANAKA, Yuji
    • Journal Title

      Kumamoto University Studies in Social and Cultural Sciences Vol.4

      Pages: 79-90

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Introductoin to Weimar Cinema Studies2006

    • Author(s)
      TANAKA, Yuji
    • Journal Title

      Kumamoto University : Department of Sociology

      Pages: 1-92

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 映画と現実2005

    • Author(s)
      田中雄次
    • Journal Title

      水俣からの想像力 熊本出版文化会館(所収)

      Pages: 93-122

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Cinema and Reality2005

    • Author(s)
      TANAKA, Yuji
    • Journal Title

      Imaginations from Minamata (Kumamoto-shuppan Bunka-kaikan)

      Pages: 93-122

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] ヒチコック『裏窓』 ミステリの映画学2005

    • Author(s)
      加藤幹郎
    • Total Pages
      153
    • Publisher
      みすず書房
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] 映画の論理 新しい映画史のために2005

    • Author(s)
      加藤幹郎
    • Total Pages
      232
    • Publisher
      みすず書房
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] Hitchcock's "Rear Window" : Cinema Studies of Mystery.2005

    • Author(s)
      KATO, Mikirou
    • Total Pages
      1-153
    • Publisher
      Tokyo : Misuzu Shobo
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] Logic of Cinema : For a New Film History.2005

    • Author(s)
      KATO, Mikirou
    • Total Pages
      1-232
    • Publisher
      Tokyo : Misuzu Shobo
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2007-12-13  

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