Screening Europe in Australasia

List of Figures

Acknowledgments


Part I: Film Distribution and Exhibition in Australasia before World War I


1. "A Window of the World": Distribution and Exhibition of Early Film in Settler-Colonial Australasia

2. The Anglo-American Fathers of the Australian Combine: Cosens Spencer, T. J. West, and J. D. Williams

3. Trans-Tasman Cinema Traffic: Film Distribution and Exhibition in New Zealand Through World War I


Part II: European Films on Australasian Screens Through 1917


4. "THEIR WORK STANDS SUPREME": Pathe Freres, Sarah Bernhardt, and French Art Films

5. "The most important event in the annals of the biograph in Australia": The Triumph of Italian Historical Epics

6. "Like the hallmark on silver": The Unquestioned Quality of Nordic Films

7. The Female Faces of German Film Abroad: Asta Nielsen, Henny Porten, and Madame Saharet

8. "We Fear No Combine": Clement Mason's European Film Imports in 1913


Part III: Competing with Hollywood on Quality


9. "Films as Foreign Offices:" Mason Super Films' Promotion of Swedish and Italian Art Film in Australasia, 1919-25

10. The Rise of UFA, Cinema Art Films, and Anglo-German Solidarity against Hollywood


Works Cited

Appendix: Film List

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• Indústria do cinema
• Estudos de meios de comunicação
• Filmes, cinema
• Cultura popular
• História do século 20: c 1900 a c 2000

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