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Robert von Dassanowsky

Robert von Dassanowsky is Associate Professor of German and Director of Film Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. A founder of the Austrian American Film Association, he serves as editorial advisor to the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers and on the boards of The International Experimental Cinema Exposition and the Denver British Film Festival. His book Austrian Cinema: A History 1896-2003, the first English-language survey of that nation's film art and industry, was published in 2005 by McFarland. Visit the publisher's website or Amazon for more information.

in issue 51

Austria Hungry: The Return of a Film Nation
Vienna's forgotten influence and new Austrian film

in issue 41

An Unclaimed Country: The Austrian Image in American Film and the Sociopolitics of The Sound of Music
On cliché, culture, and locating national identity in Wise's epic musical

in issue 38

German National Cinema, by Sabine Hake

in issue 28

Casino Royale at 33: The Postmodern Epic in Spite of Itself
It's really a courtly epic in '60s drag, kids!

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