Ernest Prodolliet (film scholar)

Ernest Prodolliet (born October 9, 1925 in Münsterlingen ; † 2009 ) was a Swiss film scholar , journalist and lecturer in film studies.

Prodolliet studied at the Universities of Basel , Aberdeen and Zurich . In 1953 he was at the University of Zurich with a thesis on Caesar von Arx to Dr. phil. PhD. From the 1960s he worked as press officer in the chemical industry. He was a film historian and lectured at the University of Freiburg .

Prodolliet's estate is in the documentation center of the Cinémathèque suisse in Zurich.

Fonts

• Caesar of Arx. Life and work. Dissertation. University of Zurich 1953. Keller, Aarau 1953.
• Small Lexicon of the Wild West: History and Films. Sanssouci, Zurich 1963.
• The film press in Switzerland: bibliography and texts. Universitätsverlag, Freiburg 1975, ISBN 3-7278-0139-5 .
• Faust in the cinema: the history of the Faust film from its beginnings to the present. Universitätsverlag, Freiburg 1978, ISBN 3-7278-0186-7 .
• Nosferatu: The development of the vampire film from Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau to Werner Herzog. Universitätsverlag, Freiburg 1980, ISBN 3-7278-0223-5 .
• The adventure of cinema: The film in the work of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin. Universitätsverlag, Freiburg 1991, ISBN 3-7278-0745-8 .
• Kafka's Swiss Journey, August / September 1911: Documentary narrative. Cratander, Basel 1994, ISBN 3-952079-30-8 .
• The Nazi Film in Switzerland in the Judgment of the Press, 1933–1945: A Documentation. Chronos, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-905313-07-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernest Prodolliet in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Paper Ernest Prodolliet . Signature: CH CS CSZ 019. Documentation Office Zurich, Cinémathèque suisse .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prodolliet Ernest Entry with authors in Switzerland . Retrieved September 20, 2014.
2. ^ Archive catalog of Ernest Prodolliet's paper holdings in the Cinémathèque suisse. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .