ReFocus: The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch

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classical Hollywood comedy
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German Expressionist film
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  • ISBN 9781399532617
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Jan 2025
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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ReFocus: The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch responds to and reframes the films of German emigre 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).