ReFocus: The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch
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German Expressionist film
historical film
historiography
Jewish cinema
Lubitsch and history
world cinema and history
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- ISBN 9781399532624
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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).
