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The films are arranged by country and reveal the remarkably prolific early filmmaking in countries like the Netherlands and Sweden. Each entry includes production information, cast, synopsis, history, and insights from reviews when available. Photographs from these films provide glimpses of what once was. An extensive index is included.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50366090051857,"sku":"CIN0786437774G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52403153797393,"sku":"NLS9780786437771","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0786437774.jpg?v=1751394402"},{"product_id":"scenes-unseen-book-harry-waldman-9780899506012","title":"Scenes Unseen","description":"In a hundred years of filmmaking dozens of potentially great films of master directors and artists were either never completed or not released. Many of these films are lost forever, but their little-known histories illustrate what fiction writers have known all along: People's failures often make stories more compelling than their successes. The reasons these might-have-beens never came to fruition are almost as varied as the plots themselves: Love spurned (\u003ci\u003eL'Ecole des Femmes\u003c\/i\u003e, 1941, Max Olphuls), unmanageable stars (\u003ci\u003eI Loved a Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e, 1936, Henry Hathaway), government suppression (\u003ci\u003eBezhin Meadow\u003c\/i\u003e, 1935, Sergei Eisenstein) and fear of reprisal (\u003ci\u003eMetall\u003c\/i\u003e, 1931-33, Hans Richter) are but a few. A detailed discussion of each attempt is accompanied by cast and production credits (when available) and excerpts from scripts and other sources. Rare stills are interspersed throughout.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50372597186833,"sku":"CIN0899506011A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0899506011.jpg?v=1751012639"},{"product_id":"nazi-films-in-america-1933-1942-book-harry-waldman-9781476680798","title":"Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942","description":"From 1933 until America's entry into World War II in 1941, nearly 500 Nazi films were shown in American theaters, accounting for nearly half of all foreign language film imports during the period. These poorly disguised propaganda films were produced by Germany's top studios and featured prominent pro-German and Nazi actors, directors and technicians. The films were replete with overt and covert anti-Jewish imagery and themes, but in spite of this obvious intent to use the medium to justify Nazi ascendancy, viewers and film critics from such prominent publications as the New York Times, Variety, the Washington Post and the Chicago Times consistently overlooked the films' anti-Semitic message, dubbing them harmless entertainment.     This is the complete history of German films shown in America from the founding of the Nazi government to America's involvement in the war. Summaries, descriptions and discussions of these almost 500 films serve to examine the major filmmakers and distributors who kept the German film industry alive during the rule of Hitler and the Third Reich. Special emphasis is placed on films directly commissioned by Joseph Goebbels, head of the German Ministry for the Enlightenment of the People and Propaganda and the man directly responsible for ensuring that the anti-Semitic ideology of the new regime was reflected in all films produced after January 30, 1933. Rarely seen photographs and illustrations complete an in-depth study of the Nazi use of this global medium.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52403215663377,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52403216285969,"sku":"NLS9781476680798","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781476680798.jpg?v=1758760238"},{"product_id":"maurice-tourneur-book-harry-waldman-9780786440856","title":"Maurice Tourneur","description":"Maurice Tourneur (1876-1961), the French and American director, actor, and theatrical manager, is the focus of this work. He began in France during the years 1912-1914, and then spent 1914-1926 in New Jersey and Hollywood, directing more than 50 films, using his French interests and talents to help shape the industry, and bringing stylization to the screen.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52455262224657,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52455262683409,"sku":"NLS9780786440856","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780786440856.jpg?v=1759373726"},{"product_id":"scenes-unseen-book-harry-waldman-9780786477463","title":"Scenes Unseen","description":"In a hundred years of filmmaking dozens of potentially great films of master directors and artists were either never completed or not released. 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