TY - BOOK AU - Blankenship,Janelle AU - Bukatman,Scott AU - Demoulin,Claire AU - DiBattista,Maria AU - Felleman,Susan AU - Horak,Jan-Christopher AU - Kornhaber,Donna AU - Lewit,Ido AU - McCormick,Rick AU - McElhaney,Joe AU - Merkin,Noa AU - Musser,Charles AU - Paul,William AU - Peucker,Brigitte AU - Slowik,Michael AU - Walworth,Catherine AU - Weinstein,Valerie TI - New Approaches to Ernst Lubitsch: A Light Touch T2 - Film Culture in Transition SN - 9789048558063 AV - PN1998.3.L83 N49 2024 U1 - 791.43/0233092 23/eng/20240308 PY - 2024///] CY - Amsterdam PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - Germany KW - United States KW - AUP Wetenschappelijk KW - Amsterdam University Press KW - Film Studies KW - Film, Media, and Communication KW - History KW - Media Studies KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning KW - bisacsh KW - Ernst Lubitsch, Silent German cinema, Classical Hollywood cinema, Film comedy, the musical N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Part I. Identity and History --; 1. Jewishness in Lubitsch’s Milieu Films : The Pride of the Firm and Shoe Palace Pinkus --; 2. The Mirror and the Mother-In-Law : Bourgeois Jewish Femininity in The Pride of the Firm, The Blouse King, and When I Was Dead --; 3. Lubitsch Revisits the Schmatta Trade: The Shop Around the Corner --; 4. To Be or Not to Be: Revising History in Light of Migrant Interactions --; Part II. Theatricality and Performance --; 5. “Done!”: Kurt Richter’s Perspectival Set Design in Lubitsch’s German Films --; 6. Lubitsch’s May McAvoy Trilogy: Threesomes, Triangles, Allegories --; 7. Theatrical Yet Deeply Cinematic : Situating Lubitsch’s Musicals Within the Early Sound Era --; 8. Miriam Hopkins Learns to Wink --; Part III. Objects and Spaces --; 9. Regulating the Gaze and the Voice for a Cinema in Transition : The Merry Jail and So This Is Paris --; 10. Lubitsch, In and Out of Bed --; 11. Ninotchka: Pleasure and Politics Objectified --; Part IV. Elusive Style --; 12. That Uncertain Feeling and the Symptoms of Married Life --; 13. Ernst Lubitsch, Censored and Censoring --; 14. Chaplin / Lubitsch / Chaplin : Influence and Counter-Influence in A Woman of Paris, The Marriage Circle, and A Countess from Hong Kong --; 15. Films in Which Nothing Very Much Happens : Unstable Knowledge in Lubitsch’s Late Silent Work --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - This exciting collection of unpublished essays on Ernst Lubitsch addresses multiple gaps in scholarly and critical engagement with the director. His understudied early German films shed light on Jewish culture, on the relation of comedy to gender and the influence of theatre on his filmmaking. The popular historical epics brought Lubitsch an invitation to Hollywood in 1922. There, Lubitsch helped develop the film musical and notably contributed to the genre of Hollywood romantic comedy. The well-known scholars—film historians, archivists, and theorists—whose essays appear in this volume expand our knowledge of the set designers, actors, directors and members of the emigré community who contributed to Lubitsch’s vibrant films. An emphasis on the role of material objects opens up a new dimension of critical engagement with the director. Light is shed on neglected films, and the antifascist dimension of his oeuvre brings his political stance clearly to light. As these essays make clear, Lubtisch’s cinema is elusive and deserving of our close attention UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048558063?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048558063 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048558063/original ER -