Österreichisches Filmmuseum
Augustinerstraße 1
1010 Wien
Alexandra Seibel stellt ihr jüngst erschienenes Buch Visions of Vienna. Narrating the City in 1920s and 1930s Cinema zu Wien-Bildern bei Stroheim, Pabst, Lubitsch oder Ophüls in einem Vortrag mit Film- und Videobeispielen vor.
Link zur Veranstaltungsankündigung auf der Seite des Filmmuseums
"Visions of Vienna. Narrating the City in 1920s and 1930s Cinema", offers a close look of how directors such as Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, G. W. Pabst, and Max Ophüls made use of the city in their work. The book shows how the glorification of the Habsburg era can be seen as directly tied to crucial issues of modernity. Films set in Vienna articulate over and over again the experience of displacement caused by emigration, anti-Semitism, changing gender relations, anti-feminism, and class distinction. These pressing themes run counter to the ongoing mystification of Vienna as the incarnation of "waltz dreams" and nostalgic schmaltz.
