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THE INFLUENCE AND IMPACT OF AUSTRIANS ON THE HOLLYWOOD FILM INDUSTRY, 1920s-2020s<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
\nUniversity of Southern California Libraries Los Angeles
\nand USC’s Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies<\/p>\n

December 9-11, 2021<\/p>\n

For a copy of the program please click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Academy Museum website here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Austrians played an extraordinary yet seldom acknowledged role in the US film industry in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Many, to be sure, have been misrepresented as Germans: their names, the common language, and career paths that often passed through the booming German film industry in the 1920s and 1930s before their emigration to the US have all contributed to this phenomenon. Yet, Austrians, rooted in the vast and multiethnic Habsburg Empire, came to California with distinct identities, cultural backgrounds, and artistic sensibilities. The large and underappreciated presence of Austrian film professionals has shaped and continues to influence American and global filmmaking in often unacknowledged ways.<\/p>\n

Organized by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the USC Libraries, USC\u2019s Max Kade Institute for Austrian, German, and Swiss Studies, and the Austrian Consulate General in Los Angeles, which initiated this project, \u201cVienna in Hollywood\u201d will explore and highlight the impact of Austrians on the Hollywood film industry from the 1920s through the present. The symposium is part of an event series of the same name dedicated to Austrian and particularly Austrian-Jewish heritage in California, organized by the Austrian Consulate General in Los Angeles. The symposium will take place at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and at the University of Southern California in December 2021. It will be accompanied by a film series at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. If the situation allows, the Austrian Consulate General will host an opening reception for speakers and co-organizers on the evening of December 10.<\/p>\n

Early Austrian \u00e9migr\u00e9s include such talents as actor-director Erich von Stroheim and composer Max Steiner who sought better opportunities in the American film industry in the early twentieth century. A much larger wave of \u00e9migr\u00e9s arrived in the 1930s and 1940s as a consequence of the rise of National Socialism in Germany and the Anschluss in Austria. Austrian \u00e9migr\u00e9 directors such as Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Fred Zinnemann and Otto Preminger, actors Hedy Lamarr, Peter Lorre, and Paul Henreid, producers like Eric Pleskow and Sam Spiegel, screenwriters Vicki Baum, Gina Kaus, and Walter Reisch as well as composers such as Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Ernest Gold, and Hanns Eisler had a lasting impact in Hollywood. And so did other, often lesser known, Austrian \u00e9migr\u00e9s who worked as writers, composers, actors, producers, cinematographers, talent agents, costume designers, or production designers. The cultural impact of these legacies is often forgotten when we celebrate contemporary Austrian filmmakers like Michael Haneke and actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Christoph Waltz. Despite considerably different circumstances for Austrians in Hollywood then and now, this symposium will present and discuss historical contributions as well as the roles these legacies play for contemporary filmmakers.<\/p>\n

The organizers invite proposals for 20-minute presentations that explore the following suggested topics or other related themes, aimed at a diverse general audience:<\/p>\n