ReFocus: The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3261-7 (ISBN)
ReFocus: The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch responds to and reframes the films of German émigré director Ernst Lubitsch as film-philosophical exemplars of both early world cinema and historical cinema, from his silent era costume dramas to his post-war Hollywood romances. This edited collection examines recent Lubitsch scholarship within the context of transcultural and transhistorical film theory to provide a critical retrospective of Lubitsch’s costume films, historical epics, and marriage comedies across his three illustrious decades of international success.
David John Boyd is a post-doctoral research fellow of the Stirling Maxwell Centre in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses include historical representation in film, film-philosophies of embodiment, and theories of intermediality and adaptation in global visual culture. His recent publications include From Glasgow to Gotham: The Comics Art of Frank Quitely with Julie Briand-Boyd (forthcoming 2025) and Deleuze and Global Animation: Estranged Images (forthcoming 2026).
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Ernst Lubitsch’s Touch of the Past - David John Boyd
Part I. Lubitsch’s Costume Films: From Berlin to Hollywood (1914–27)
1. Eyeing Egypt: Transparent Orientalism on the Edge of Cinematic Modernity in The Eyes of Mummy Ma (1918) - Christina Parker-Flynn
2. Longing for Visual Attraction: Fashion and Fabrics as Sensual Quality in the Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch - Evelyn Echle
3. The Woven World-Image: Lubitsch, Deleuze and the Film-Philosophies of
Fabric - David John Boyd
4. ‘The Lubitsch Touch' under National Socialism: Lubitsch’s Early Historicals and Their Influence on Nazi Film Aesthetics - Mina Radović
5. ‘Do You Know That You Two Are Married to Each Other?’: The Oyster Princess and The Doll (1919) as Farces of Sex and Class - Ciara Moloney
6. Carnival, Spectatorship and Desire in Rosita (1923) - Irene Rihuete Varea
Part II. Lubitsch’s Pre-Code Imaginary (1928–33)
7. Lubitsch’s ‘Hidden Jewish Touch’: Jewish Anxieties and Gallic Desires - Craig Svonkin
8. ‘This Is Real!’: Money in Trouble in Paradise (1932) - Kyle Stine
Part III. Lubitsch’s Émigré Hollywood (1934–48)
9. The Earnest Turn in Ernst’s Historiography - Amin Heidari
10. Pariah Humour: Ernst Lubitsch’s Refugee Comedies - Fabrizio S. Ciccone
11. Fighting Fascism: Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942) - Jan-Christopher Horak
12. Ernst Lubitsch in Dialogue with History - Margie Burns
13. History and/as Genre in the Work of Fritz Lang and Ernst Lubitsch - Matthew Williamson
14. Remaking Lubitsch in Hong Kong Cinema: The Ninotchka Trope in Her Fatal
Ways (1991) - Jessica Siu-yin Yeung
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.01.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | ReFocus: The International Directors Series |
| Zusatzinfo | 30 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-3261-8 / 1399532618 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-3261-7 / 9781399532617 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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