Passions and Deceptions
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Acting
Art film
Auteur theory
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Career
Castration
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Cinema of the United States
Classical Hollywood cinema
Close-up
Cluny Brown
Commodity fetishism
Costume
Dissolve (filmmaking)
Emil Jannings
Episode
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Ernst Lubitsch
Eroticism
Farce
Femininity
Fetishism
Film
Film criticism
Film industry
Filmmaking
Filmography
Forbidden Paradise
Frieda (Peanuts)
Genre
Henny Porten
Historical period drama
Humour
Indiana University Press
Infatuation
Innuendo
Interior design
Irony
Jeanette MacDonald
Lady Windermere's Fan
Masculinity
Maurice Chevalier
Melodrama
Modernity
Narcissism
Narration
Narrative
National cinema
Ninotchka
Operetta
Parody
Pola Negri
Protagonist
Psychoanalysis
Scenario
Scenic design
Screenwriter
Short film
Silent film
Sophistication
Spectacle
Struggle (TV series)
That Uncertain Feeling (novel)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Comic
The Marriage Circle
The Merry Widow
The Other Hand
The Oyster Princess
The Smiling Lieutenant
The Student Prince
Theft
Product details
- ISBN 9780691008783
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Sep 1992
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A collaborator with Warner Brothers and Paramount in the early days of sound film, the German film director Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) is famous for his sense of ironic detachment and for the eroticism he infused into such comedies as So This Is Paris and Trouble in Paradise. In a general introduction to his silent and early sound films (1914-1932) and in close readings of his comedies, Sabine Hake focuses on the visual strategies Lubitsch used to convey irony and analyzes his contribution to the rise of classical narrative cinema. Exploring Lubitsch's depiction of femininity and the influence of his early German films on his entire career, she argues that his comedies represent an important outlet for dealing with sexual and cultural differences. The readings cover The Oyster Princess, The Doll, The Mountain Cat, Passion, Deception, So This Is Paris, Monte Carlo, and Trouble in Paradise, which are interpreted as part of an underlying process of negotiation between different modes of representation, narration, and spectatorship--a process that comprises the conditions of production in two different national cinemas and the ongoing changes in film technology.
Drawing attention to Lubitsch's previously neglected German films, this book presents the years until 1922 as the formative period in his career.
