Contents - 6 Acknowledgements - 8 Chapter One: Introduction - 10 Diversity and Exchange - Rethinking the National in European Cinema - 10 Cinema and the City - 11 Paris and the 1930s - 13 Paris and French Cinema of the 1930s - 14 France and the Émigrés - 16 City of Darkness, City of Light - 19 Chapter Two: The City in Context - 22 An Historical Ambivalence - 22 Modernity and the City - 25 National Boundaries and Early European Sound Cinema - 30 Paris as Staging Ground for the Early Sound Wars - 34 Berlin as Prestige Model and Place of Work for French Film Industry Professionals - 37 Patterns of Exile and Emigration in the Pre-Nazi Era: The Russians and their Relationships to Paris and Berlin - 40 Trade and Economic Emigration from Berlin to Paris before 1933 - 42 Case Study One: Anatole Litvak - 44 Case Study Two: Kurt Courant - 47 The Rise of the Nazis in Berlin and the Politics of Departure - 51 The Place of Jews in Paris - 53 Reception: The Émigrés' Arrival in Paris - 57 Reception: The French Film Industry - 59 Case Study Three: Erich Pommer - 62 Case Study Four: Robert Siodmak - 66 Chapter Three: City of Light - 74 Paris as Spectacle - 74 Paris and the Spectacle of Entertainment - 82 Parisian Journeys Across Time and Space - 91 Chapter Four: City of Darkness - 108 The Camera Goes Down the Streets: 'The Hidden Spirit Under the Familiar Façade' - 108 Framing the Urban Decor - The Émigrés and Poetic Realism - 119 Spaces of Crime and Pleasure in the City of Darkness - 128 Parisian Journeys Between the Past and the Present - 142 Chapter Five: Divided City - 150 The Divided City in Context - 150 Divided Characters, Divided City - 157 Journeys Across the Divided City - 165 Chapter Six: Conclusion - 172 Notes - 178 Appendices - 192 Appendix One: Tobis In Paris Filmography 1929-1939 - 192 Appendix Two: Osso Filmography 1930-1939 - 193 Appendix Three: Anatole Litvak Filmography 1930-1936 - 194 Appendix Four: Kurt Courant Filmography 1929-1939 - 195 Appendix Five: Erich Pommer French-Language Filmography 1930-1934 - 197 Appendix Six: Robert Siodmak French-Language Filmography 1931-1939 - 198 Appendix Seven: Nero Films Filmography 1930-1939 - 199 Appendix Eight: La Crise est finie - 200 Appendix Nine: La Vie Parisienne - 202 Appendix Ten: Mauvaise graine - 204 Appendix Eleven: Coeur de lilas - 206 Appendix Twelve: Dans les rues - 208 Appendix Thirteen: Carrefour - 211 Appendix Fourteen: Pièges - 213 Appendix Fifteen: Liliom - 216 Filmography - 220 Bibliography - 222 Index - 244

Alastair Phillips lectures in film and television studies in the department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading, UK.