Enchanted by Cinema

Jan-Christopher Horak is former Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive. Previously he was Director at Munich Filmmuseum, and Curator, George Eastman Museum. He has had professorships in Rochester, Munich, Salzburg, UCLA, and Miami, and presently is teaching at Chapman. He has published more than three hundred articles and reviews in English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Swedish, Japanese, and Hebrew publications.

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Acknowledgements



Foreword

David Thiele and Linda Thiele



Introduction

Jan-Christopher Horak and Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert



Part I: Wilhelm Thiele’s Early Career



Chapter 1. Towards Thiele: A Director in the Making

Philipp Stiasny



Chapter 2. Across Studio Borders: From Hurra, ich lebe (1928) to The Ghost Comes Home (1940)

Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert



Chapter 3. Modeling Female Agency: Wilhelm Thiele’s Adieu Macotte (1929)

Heike Klapdor



Part II: Thiele in Europe’s Sound Film Babel, 1929–1933



Chapter 4. From Liebeswalzer (1930) to Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1930): Thiele and the Formation of the UFA Sound Film Operetta

Michael Wedel



Chapter 5. “Why Settle So Low?”: Fantasies of Female Self-Fulfillment in Wilhelm Thiele’s Die Privatsekretärin (1931)

Christian Rogowski



Chapter 6. “Greater Success Than Ever Before in Your New Workshop”: Wilhelm Thiele in Britain

Geoff Brown



Chapter 7. “Fate Goes Like This, and Everything’s Gone”: Großfürstin Alexandra (1933), Exile, and Renunciation

Anjeana K. Hans



Part III: Thiele in Hollywood, 1935–1946



Chapter 8. Embracing the Off-White: Race and Sex in William Thiele’s Jungle Princess (1936)

Valerie Weinstein



Chapter 9. Times of Adjustment: Celebrated Innocence and Mass Production in Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937), Bridal Suite (1939), and Bad Little Angel (1940)

Imme Klages



Chapter 10. Me Thiele, You Tarzan

Marianna Torgovnick



Chapter 11. “I’m a Bit Gloomy This Evening.” Forgotten Noir: The Madonna’s Secret (1946)

Christian Cargnelli



Part IV: American Television and Post-War Germany, 1949–1960



Chapter 12. Thiele at Apex

Jan-Christopher Horak



Chapter 13. The Misfits Make America: Wilhelm Thiele’s The Lone Ranger Episodes

A. Dana Weber



Chapter 14. William Thiele’s Last Hurrah: Der letzte Fußgänger (1960) and Sabine und die 100 Männer (1960)

Jan-Christopher Horak



Conclusion

Jan-Christopher Horak and Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert



Coda



Filmography

Hans-Michael Bock



Interview with W. and B. Thiele

Jan-Christopher Horak



In His Brother’s Shadow: The Cinema of Eugen Thiele

Armin Loacker