Robert von Dassanowsky is Professor of German and Film and director of the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He has served as the editor of The Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, 2nd Ed. and editorial advisor to the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. His examinations of film and literature have appeared in widely in journals and anthologies. His most recent books are Austrian Cinema: A History (2005), New Austrian Film (co-ed with Oliver C. Speck, 2011) and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Der Schwierige Revisited (co-ed with Martin Liebscher and Christophe Fricker, 2011). Forthcoming are edited collections on Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, World Film Locations: Vienna, and his book Screening Transcendence: Film under Austrofascism 1933-38. Dassanowsky is also active as an independent film producer. Male Bisexuality in Current Cinema: Images of Growth, Rebellion and Survival, by Justin Vicari. Jefferson and London: McFarland, 2011. Paperback. $45.00 In analyzing the 1970s cinematic Eurodecadence, the Italian-originated school[…]
Vienna’s Forgotten Influence and New Austrian Film Two unrelated events signaled a kind of poetic caesura in Austrian cinema at its second turn of the century: Austria’s first film star,[…]
On cliche, culture, and locating national identity in Wise’s epic musical
German National Cinema, by Sabine Hake. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Trade paper, $22.95, 232pp. ISBN 0-41508-902-6 It is certainly astonishing, although not unexpected, that it has taken almost[…]
It’s really a courtly epic in ’60s drag. It was a coup that Columbia Pictures had banked on: the one 007 property that got away from Broccoli and Saltzman’s cash[…]
