GLOBAL HOLLYWOOD VERSUS NATIONAL PRIDE: The Battle to Film The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
ABSTRACT MGM's attempt to film The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel's 1933 best-selling novel about the Turkish genocide of Armenians during World War I, nearly touched off a major international incident and alerted Hollywood to the dangers of dealing with foreign subjects in the ideologically charged era of the Great Depression.
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2013 ◽
Vol 73
(2)
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pp. 371-406
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