The roots of Alexander Korda: myths of identity and the international film
The roots of Alexander Korda: myths of identity and the international film
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亚历山大·科达的根源：身份神话与国际电影
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2003
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G. Walker
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步行者考察了电影制片人亚历山大科达的生活和职业生涯，从他在匈牙利的早期到20世纪30年代末。他考察了科达的犹太根源，以及犹太文化对他早期职业生涯的影响。他主张更密切地关注他生活和工作的犹太环境，他考察了当代叙述和最近的研究中各种试图消除或混淆科尔达犹太性的尝试，并就反犹太主义和文化偏见对他的思想和自我表现的影响提出了建议。步行者认为，科达是一个更一贯和认真从事政治电影制片人比通常认为，并简要审查了一些持久的利益，在他的早期生活和电影，他生产和/或导演在1933年至1942年期间（《亨利八世的私生活》、《红花侠》、《未来的事》、《那个汉密尔顿女人》）：主要是反法西斯主义、英国重整军备、结束美国孤立主义的必要性以及难民的困境。最后，步行者着眼于民族和文化根源、同化、归属感和“局外人”的特殊视角等问题对他的思想产生影响的方式。他认为，科尔达自己作为匈牙利犹太人和流亡者的经历与他对电影制作和“国际电影”的想法之间存在密切联系：一部植根于英国民族文化和身份的电影几乎是神话般的想法，可以在世界各地销售。
Walker examines the life and career of the filmmaker Alexander Korda, from his early days in Hungary to the late 1930s. He examines Korda’s Jewish roots, and the impact and influence of Jewish culture on his early career. Arguing for closer attention to the Jewish milieu in which he lived and worked, he examines the various attempts to elide or obfuscate Korda’s Jewishness in contemporary accounts and more recent studies, and offers suggestions about the impact of antisemitism and cultural prejudices on his thinking and self-presentation. Walker argues that Korda was a more consistently and seriously engaged political filmmaker than is usually assumed, and briefly examines some of the abiding interests in his early life and the films he produced and/or directed in the period 1933–42 (The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Things to Come, That Hamilton Woman): principally, anti-fascism, British rearmament, the need to end US isolationism and the plight of the refugee. Finally, Walker looks at the ways in which issues of national and cultural roots, assimilation, belonging, and the special perspective of the ‘outsider’ made an impact on his ideas. He argues for a close correlation between Korda’s own experience as a Hungarian Jew and an émigré and his ideas about filmmaking and the ‘international film’: the almost mythical idea of a film rooted in British national culture and identity that would be marketable throughout the world.