Screening Europe in Australasia

Julie K. Allen is Professor of Comparative Arts and Letters at Brigham Young University. She is the author of Icons of Danish Modernity: Georg Brandes & Asta Nielsen (2012) and Danish but Not Lutheran: The Impact of Mormonism on Danish Cultural Identity, 1850–1920 (2017), as well as numerous articles about European silent film, fairy tales, migration, and the construction of cultural identity.

• List of Figures AcknowledgmentsPart I: Film Distribution and Exhibition in Australasia before World War I1. “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 IPart II: European Films on Australasian Screens Through 19174. “THEIR WORK STANDS SUPREME”: Pathé Frères, 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 1913Part III: Competing with Hollywood on Quality9. “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 HollywoodWorks Cited Appendix: Film List

Julie Allen's monumental book on the screening of European films in Australia and New Zealand during the silent period adds greatly to our knowledge of the transnational circulation of silent European films.