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- Title
"People coming, going. Nothing ever happens": Hotels in Representative German and American Interwar Films.
- Authors
Kotte, Claudia
- Abstract
As railway travel and tourism expanded massively from 1850 onwards, hotels—a quintessential space between—became a literary and cinematic setting par excellence. While the hotel serves as a foil to the traditional bourgeois home and a stage for a multinational cast of characters who embody new notions of home and community, in the interwar years hotel films in particular emerge as a distinctive cinematic genre, undergoing a profound shift by the end of the 1930s. Hotels in films such as Grand Hotel (1932) and Der Page vom Dalmasse-Hotel (The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel) (1933) epitomize an opulent, cosmopolitan lifestyle. By the end of the decade, they become increasingly entangled with issues of policing, othering, and doom, as can be seen in Hotel Sacher (1939), as well as in Hotel Berlin (1945).
- Subjects
TOURISM; FILM genres; HOTELS in motion pictures; INTERWAR Period (1918-1939); NATIONAL socialism
- Publication
Space Between: Literature & Culture, 1914-1945, 2020, Vol 16, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1551-9309
- Publication type
Article