Class Readings

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Required and Ordered:

• Neal Gabler. An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. New York: Anchor Books, 1988. ISBN 0-385-26557-3


• Otto Friedrich. City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s. Berkeley: U of California P, 1997 [orig. 1986] ISBN 0-520-20949-4

Recommended and Ordered

• Cornelius Schnauber. Hollywood Haven: Homes and Haunts of the European Emigres and Exiles in Los Angeles. Trans.Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg. Riverside, CA: Ariadne, 1997; # ISBN: 1-57241-042-6; F 867 L89 J5813 1997 PCL Stacks


• Joseph Straubhaar and Robert LaRose. Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology. Fourth Edition. Belmont, CA: Thompson/Wadsworth, 2004; ISBN 0-534-62019-1

Required Paper Reserve:

• Charles Drazin. In Search of the Third Man. New York: Limelight Editions, 2000. ISBN 0-87910-294-2


• 2. "Bombed About a Bit"
• 7. "You'll Never Teach These Austrians to Be Good Citizens"
• 8. The Fourth Man
• 10. From Fool to Hero
• 13. The Heart of the Matter


• David B. Pratt. "'O, Lubitsch, Where Wert Thou?': Passion, the German Invasion and the Emergence of the Name 'Lubitsch.'" Wide Angle, 13, #1 (Jan. 1991): 34-70


• Arthur Schnitzler. Dream Story. Trans. Otto P. Schinnerer. Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2003. ISBN 1-931243-48-4 = Traumnovelle (Dream Novella) = Dream Story. Trans. J.M.Q. Davies. London: Penguin, 1999; PQ 2638 N5 T7213 1999 PCL Stacks


• Ed Sikov. On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder. New York: Hyperion, 1998.
  • 5. Taking Off
  • 8. Coupled
  • 17. Sunset Boulevard
  • 18. Ace in the Hole
  • 23. Some Like It Hot
  • 25. Selling It (on One, Two, Three)

On Electronic Reserve (required):

• Anita M. Busch. "Mass Appeal: The Marketing-Savvy Schwarzenegger Effectively Mixes Action and Comedy." The Hollywood Reporter, 326, #11 (9 March 1993): S8, S10, S16, S18, S20 = Arnie-Mass.pdf


• "Briefmarke: Arnie zum 'Aufpicken.'" ORF.at. 24 August 2003 [Austria's Schwarzenegger stamp]. http://magazin.orf.at/stmkmagazin/immergutdrauf/tipps/stories/16164. Accessed 24 August 2004 = arnieORFstamp.pdf


• Connie Bruck. "Letter from California: Supermoderate! -- The New Governor Dazzles the Celebrity-Struck Legislators of Sacramento." The New Yorker, 28 June 2004: 68-87 = BruckSuper.pdf


• Kenneth Chang. "Hollywood Star's Wartime Secret Becomes a Screenplay." New York Times, Tuesday 3 May 2004 Late Edition, Section F, Column 2, Science Desk, P. 2 = changLamarr.pdf


• George Christy. "The Great Life" (Schwarzenegger on Conan). Hollywood Reporter, 268, #8 (18 August 1981): 27 = ChristyARNOLD-conan.pdf


• David Cordingly. Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates. New York: Random Books, 1995.
  9. Sloops, Schooners, and Pirate Films," 158-177 = BlackFlag-Cordingly.pdf


• Robert Dassanowsky-Harris. "Billy Wilder's Germany," Pt. 1. Films in Review, 41: 5 (May 1990), p. 292-97 = dass-wilder.pdf


• ---. "Billy Wilder's Germany," Pt. 2. Films in Review, 41: 6/7 (June/July 1990), p. 352-55 = dass-wilder.pdf


• John Gregory Dunne. "Dolly's Dilemma." Life, 14 February 1969. Accessed 6 September 2004 = dolly1969Life.pdf


• Bob Edison. "Interview with Hedy Lamarr." Films in Review, 25, # 6 (June/July 1974), p.350-355, 366 = HedyLamarInt.pdf


• "Female Inventors: Hedy Lamarr." American Heritage of Invention &a,p; Technology, 12, #4 (Spring 1997). Posted at "Inventors Assistance League." Accessed 30 December 2004 = FemaleInventLamarr.pdf


• Gerd Gemünden. "Space out of Joint: Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be." New German Critique, # 89 (Spring-Summer 2003): 59-80 = gemundenLUBITSCH.pdf


• Tom Hibbert. "Take Me to Your Lederhosen." Empire (London), #87 (September 1996): 64-72 = lederhosen.pdf


• Clive Hirschorn. "In the Picture: Clive Hirschorn Describes the Making of Hello, Dolly!" Radio Times, 235, #3059 (26 June-2 July 1982): 12 = makeDolly.pdf


• "Historians Dispute Schwarzenegger's Convention Comments." CNN Online. Friday, 3 September 2004. . Accessed 6 September 2004 = Arnie&History.pdf


• Neil D. Isaacs. "Lubitsch and the Filmed-Play Syndrome." Literature/Film Quarterly, 3, #4 (Fall, 1975): 299-308 = isaacs-lubitsch.pdf


• Karen Jaehne. "Talking Heads: Out of Austria" (Interview with Klaus Maria Brandauer). Stills, 25 (March 1986): 10 = jaehne-brandauer.pdf


• Norman O. Keim. "In the Director's Chair: Michael Curtiz, Noble Cynic." Films of the Golden Age, # 17 (Summer 1999): 64-72 = keim.pdf


• Gene Kelly. "Directing Dolly." Action, 4, #2 (March/April 1969 ): 8-10 = directDolly.pdf


• Philip Kemp. "Retrospective: The Third Man." Sight and Sound (April 1994): 54-55 = retro3rdman.pdf


• André Lefevere. Translation, Rewriting, and the Manipulation of Literary Fame. New York: Routledge, 1992 = Lefevere-Translation.pdf


• Tom Lehrer (lyrics and music). "Alma." 1965. = ALMAdoc.pdf


• Brian McFarland. "The Third Man: Context, Text and Intertextuality." Metro: Media and Education Magazine, #91 (Summer 1992-93): 16-26 = mcfarlandTHIRDMAN.pdf


• Hassan Melehy. "Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be: The Question of Simulation in Cinema." Film Criticism, 26, #2 (Winter 2001): 19-40 = melehylubitsch.pdf


• Ferenc Molnár. Liliom: A Legend in Seven Scenes and a Prologue. The Plays of Ferenc Molnár, New York: Macy-Masius/The Vanguard Press, 1929. 94-143 = Molnar-Liliom.pdf


• Bob Thomas. "Brandauer's Career Accelerates." Hollywood Reporter Weekly International Edition, 95, #18 (30 December 1986): I-6, I-8 = brandauerAfrica.pdf


• Carlton Vogt. "Mystery in Palm Springs." Press Enterprise (Riverside, CA), Friday, 9 April 2004, Pg. A07 = vogtLamarrhouse.pdf


• Jay Weissberg. "Calling Hedy Lamarr." Variety, Film Reviews, 11-17 October 2004: 64 = weissbergLamarr.pdf


• "Where Are They Now?: The Sound of Music." Empire (London), 79 (January 1996): 54-55 = sound-where.pdf


• Thornton Wilder. The Merchant of Yonkers: A Farce in Four Acts. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. 812 W645M PCL Stacks = wilder-yonkers.pdf


• ---. Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker. New York, Harper, 1957. 812 W645 C1 PCL Stacks = wilder-matchmaker.pdf
  NOTE: Matchmaker is based on Johann Nestroy, Einen Jux will er sich machen (Vienna, 1842) which was based on John Oxenford, A Well Spent Day (1836); Tom Stoppard, On the Razzle, is a further adaptation (Rough Crossing [orig. 1985] and On the Razzle [orig. 1981]. London, Boston: Faber and Faber, 1991; PR 6069 T6 R65 1991 Fine Arts Library). The Oxenford text is on electronic reserve.


• Sue Woodman. "Meet Mr. Iron Will" (on Pumping Iron). Screen International, #107 (Saturday, 1 October 1977): 15 = IronWill.pdf


• "Zum Ablecken: Arnie jetzt als Briefmarke - doch sein Stern Sinkt." Die Krone (Austria), 24 August 2004 [Austria's Schwarzenegger stamp]. Accessed 24 August 2004 = arnieSTAMP.pdf

Of Other Interest:

• Cahiers du Cinema, Special Issue on Ernst Lubitsch [in French]. 198 (February 1968) = Cahiers-Lubitsch.pdf


• Charmian Carr, with Jean A. S. Strauss. Forever Liesl: A Memoir of The Sound of Music. New York: Penguin, 2000. ISBN 0-14-029840-1


• Cameron Crowe. Conversations with Wilder. New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Random House, 1999. [Great insight into movie-making as an industry process]


• Richard Dyer. Stars. New Edition. London: British Film Institute, 1998. ISBN 0-85170-643-6


• Julia Antopol Hirsch. The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Movie. Lincolnwood, IL: Contemporary Books, 1993. ISBN 0-8092-3837-3


• Ulrike Kammerhofer-Aggermann and Alexander G. Keul, eds. The Sound of Music zwischen Mythos und Marketing. Salzburger Beiträge zur Volkskunde, Bd. 11. Salzburg, Austria: Salzburger Landesinstitut für Volkskunde, 2000.


• Making Movies. Special Issue of The New Yorker. 20 October 2003


• Klaus Mann. Mephisto. Trans. Robin Smyth. New York: Random House, 1977. PT 2625 A435 M413 1977 PCL Stacks


• Paul McDonald. The Star System: Hollywood's Production of Popular Identities. London: Wallflower, 2000. ISBN 1-90336-402-7


• James Monaco, Nick Drjuchin (Illustrator), David Lindroth (Illustrator). How To Read a Film: Book (3rd ed.) and DVD-ROM. Harbor Electronic Publishing; 2000; ISBN: 0-96697-449-2


• Arthur Schnitzler. Reigen (1903) = Hands Around (1920) = La Ronde (film, 1950) = David Hare, The Blue Room: Freely Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's La ronde (1998); PR 6058 A678 B58 1998 PCL Stacks; = Tom Stoppard, Dalliance (1986); PR 6069 T6 D34 1986 PCL Stacks


• Georg Seeßlen. "Arnold Schwarzenegger, der Barbar, der Fremde, der Amerikaner" [in German]. Film, 13 , # 8 {August 1996): 20-31


• Rob White. The Third Man. London: British Film Institute, 2003. ISBN 0-85170-963-x