HOLLYWOOD ÉMIGRÉS AND EXILES

Before and during the Second World War, scores of artists across the filmmaking spectrum fled for their lives from the specter of fascism in Europe.  They found refuge in Hollywood, soon assimilating into the studio system, and infusing new ideas and directions into how movies were made in the midst of a world in upheaval.  This panel will discuss how lingering fears of what they experienced and the trauma of what and who they lost was expressed in some of Hollywood’s greatest films.