Books by Jan-Christopher Horak
William Thiele is remembered today as the father of the sound film operetta with seminal classics... more William Thiele is remembered today as the father of the sound film operetta with seminal classics such as Drei von der Tankstelle (1930). While often considered among the most accomplished directors of Late Weimar cinema, as an Austrian Jew he was vilified during the onset of the Nazi regime in 1933 and fled to the United States where he continued making films until the end of his career in 1960. Enchanted by Cinema closely examines the European musical film pioneer’s work and his cross-cultural perspective across forty years of filmography in Berlin and Hollywood to account for his popularity while discussing issues of ethnicity, exile, comedy, music, gender, and race.
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Hollywood Goes Latin. Spanish-Language Cinema in Los Angeles, 2019
From the 1920s through the 1950s, Los Angeles enjoyed a buoyant homegrown Spanish-language film c... more From the 1920s through the 1950s, Los Angeles enjoyed a buoyant homegrown Spanish-language film culture comprised of local and itinerant stock companies that produced stage plays, and first-run cinemas, such as the Teatro ELectrico and the California Theatre. Witht the emergence and growth of Mexican and Argentine cinmea in the 1930s, Los ANgeles quickly became the undisputed capital of Latin American fillm culture inthe United States. Hollywood studios alsoo h9ired international talent from Spain and Latin America for the production of films in Spanish. This volume presents papers from a 2017 FIAF symposium on Latin America and Hollywood.
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Journal of Film Preservation, No. 101, 2020
Book review of FIAF publication, Hollywood Goes Latin< Spanish Language Cinema in Los Angeles (20... more Book review of FIAF publication, Hollywood Goes Latin< Spanish Language Cinema in Los Angeles (2019) in Journal of Film Preservation, October 2020
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Cinema Between Latin America and Los Angeles. Origins to 1960, 2019
Historically, Los Angeles and its exhibition market have been central to the international succes... more Historically, Los Angeles and its exhibition market have been central to the international success of Latin American cinema. Not only was Los Angeles a site crucial for exhibition of these films, but it became the most important hub in the western hemisphere for the distribution of Spanish language films made for Latin American audiences. Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles builds upon this foundational insight to both examine the considerable, ongoing role that Los Angeles played in the history of Spanish-language cinema and to explore the implications of this transnational dynamic for the study and analysis of Latin American cinema before 1960. The volume editors aim to flesh out the gaps between Hollywood and Latin America, American imperialism and Latin American nationalism in order to produce a more nuanced view of transnational cultural relations in the western hemisphere.
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This is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of Af... more This is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African, Carribean, and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1970s and 1980s. The group - including Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Haile Gerima, Billy Woodberry, Jamaa Fanaka, and Zeinabu irene Davis - shared a desire to create alternatives to the dominant modes of narrative, style, and practice in American cinema, works that reflected the full complexity of Black exoperiences.
Winner of the Andor Kraszna-Krausz International Film Book Award, 2016.
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Review of Saul Bass book by Henning Engelke
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A Book Review by Tony Williams.
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Journal of Film and Video, 2016
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Book Review by Julie Turlock of Saul Bass: Anatomy of Film Design.
The Moving Image. The Journal... more Book Review by Julie Turlock of Saul Bass: Anatomy of Film Design.
The Moving Image. The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Spring 2017, pp. 151-154
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Most members of the general public have never heard of Saul Bass, yet almost everyone knows his w... more Most members of the general public have never heard of Saul Bass, yet almost everyone knows his work, whether his logos for the Girl Scouts of America, United Airlines, and AT &T, or his film titles for Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Psycho (1960), and Goodfellas (1990), or his Academy Award winning film, Why Man Creates (1968). This book looks at the career of one of Hollywood’s most accomplished designers, who worked in film advertising, designed posters, created title sequences, directed commercials, independent documentary and fiction films, as well as corporate identity campaigns for clients outside Hollywood. Rather than seeing each one of these aesthetic endeavors in isolation, the book argues that they all manifested a particular brand, revealing similar design strategies, themes, and visual looks, which have become identified with the post World War II era now associated with Madmen. Furthermore, Bass’ design aesthetic was heavily influenced by the clean, modernist look of the Bauhaus, as it was translated into a particular idiom for corporate America. By infusing his Hollywood design work with high art modernism, Bass was responsible for raising the sophistication of Hollywood films and advertising.
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UCLA Film & Television Archive catalog of 2014 film program, exploring over forty films written a... more UCLA Film & Television Archive catalog of 2014 film program, exploring over forty films written and directed by Native American filmmakers, including Chris Eyre, Shelley Niro, Randy Redroad, Heather Rae, Jeff Barnaby, Zacharias Kunuk, and Valerie Red-Horse. Program also toured ten American cities.
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Dramatische Szenen und tragische Helden inmitten einer entfesselten Hochgebirgsnatur: Dr. Arnold ... more Dramatische Szenen und tragische Helden inmitten einer entfesselten Hochgebirgsnatur: Dr. Arnold Fanck begrndete das Genre des Bergfilms und gilt als Entdecker von Luis Trenker und Leni Riefenstahl. Ausstellungskatalog presentiert Arnold Fancks Werk als einen wichtigen Teil der deutschen Filmgeschichte, das in seiner dramaturgischen Dichte Cineasten bis heute inspiriert. Mit vielen bislang unver÷ffentlichten Abbildungen und Dokumenten aus dem Nachlass Arnold Fankcks, der dem Mnchner Stadtmuseum/Filmmuseum im Jahr 1996 geschenkt und dort wissenschaftlich aufbereitet wurde.
Biographischer Essay, Filmkritiken, Freiburger Kameraschule, Fanck Stammbaum, Bibliographie
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From Amazon: a book that the conscientious film scholar cannot afford to be without. . . . This v... more From Amazon: a book that the conscientious film scholar cannot afford to be without. . . . This volume signals the beginning of a new era in the discussion of the early American avant-garde. Editor has compiled in Lovers of Cinema a ground-breaking group of articles on this neglected film period. With one exception, all are original to this volume, and many are the first to treat comprehensively such early filmmakers as Mary Ellen Bute, Theodore Huff, and Douglass Crockwell. Also included in the book is a listing of all American avant-garde films produced in the years before World War II as well as a bibliography of the most relevant criticism, literature, and news accounts.
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Medienwissenschaft. Rezensionen, No. 3, 1999
Book Review by Dietrich Kuhlbrot of Jan-Christopher Horak's Lovers of Cinema. The First American ... more Book Review by Dietrich Kuhlbrot of Jan-Christopher Horak's Lovers of Cinema. The First American Avant-Garde, 1919-1945 (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995)
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Cantrills Filmnotes, Nos. 75-75, 1994
Interview by Jeannette Delamoir with author Jan-Christopher Horak about his book Lovers of Cinema... more Interview by Jeannette Delamoir with author Jan-Christopher Horak about his book Lovers of Cinema: The First American Avant-Garde 1919-1945
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Catalog pub. in conj. with a traveling exhibit on the make believe & the marvelous of Hollywood's... more Catalog pub. in conj. with a traveling exhibit on the make believe & the marvelous of Hollywood's golden years of moviemaking. While the exhibit consisted of material from the Warner Bros. archive at Eastman House, the text focuses on the classical studio system in all its phases from production through distribution, exhibition and publicity campaigns. Well illus. w. many numerous photos & candids.
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Bio-filmography of over 450 German speaking emigres to Hollywood, who fled Nazi Germany after 193... more Bio-filmography of over 450 German speaking emigres to Hollywood, who fled Nazi Germany after 1933. Includes introductory essay, which discusses emigres in the context of the forced exile of Jewish film artists, as well as a filmorgraphy and an extensive bibliography.
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Approximately one third of the ca. 180 anti-Nazi-films released by Hollywood during World War II ... more Approximately one third of the ca. 180 anti-Nazi-films released by Hollywood during World War II were either produced, written or directed by German speaking Jewish emigres to Hollywood who had been forced to flee Nazi Germany after 1933 and Austria after the 1936 blacklist of Jewish film workers. Discussing Hollywood's attitude towards film propaganda in the 1930s, this German language book, then covers anti-Nazi-films like CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY, MANHUNT, MARGIN FOR ERROR, THE MORTAL STORM, HITLER'S MADMAN, ENEMY OF WOMEN, HANGMEN ALSO DIE, REUNION IN FRANCE, and many others produced by Fritz Lang, Douglas Sirk, Otto Preminger, etc.
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Books by Jan-Christopher Horak
Winner of the Andor Kraszna-Krausz International Film Book Award, 2016.
The Moving Image. The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Spring 2017, pp. 151-154
Biographischer Essay, Filmkritiken, Freiburger Kameraschule, Fanck Stammbaum, Bibliographie
Winner of the Andor Kraszna-Krausz International Film Book Award, 2016.
The Moving Image. The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Spring 2017, pp. 151-154
Biographischer Essay, Filmkritiken, Freiburger Kameraschule, Fanck Stammbaum, Bibliographie