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16 de abr. de 2024 · What was so distinctive about Ernst Lubitsch's early sound era musicals? What made them stand out in their day, and what enabled Lubitsch to be an early pioneer of the genre? Though scholars have described in often brief and general terms Lubitsch's skillful use of a few new early sound tools, we lack an extensive understanding of his early sound methods and the ways in which they reflected or ...
16 de abr. de 2024 · 1968 was an important year for the cinema of Ernst Lubitsch. In February, Cahiers du Cinema published a special issue on Lubitsch, which included French translations of existing essays and a filmography, as well as new essays by Francois Truffaut and Jean Domarchi. Later that year saw the publication of Herman G. Weinberg's The Lubitsch Touch: A Critical Study, the earliest book-length work on ...
16 de abr. de 2024 · Between the success of The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitch, 1940) and the masterpiece To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch, 1942), Ernst Lubitsch directed the comedy That Uncertain Feeling (1941), based on a script by Donald Ogden Stewart (The Philadelphia Story [George Cukor, 1940]). While his other works of the period engage in international politics, this film returns to the earlier themes of his ...
16 de abr. de 2024 · Ernst Lubitsch's earliest films, sometimes called “milieu comedies” or “fashion farces,” reflect the influence of variety and Yiddish theater. Set in Berlin's garment district, a milieu that Lubitsch's contemporaries perceived as Jewish, these comedies star Lubitsch as a charming rascal whose shenanigans help him succeed in the fashion business and get the girl.
16 de abr. de 2024 · New Approaches to Ernst Lubitsch - March 2024. Abstract. This essay focuses on The Merry Jail (1917) and So This Is Paris (1926)—two Lubitsch films that are based on the same primary source. Their genealogical affinity and ensuing similarities are the basis for an investigation of the impact of the cinematic incorporation of objects and media on filmic style.
16 de abr. de 2024 · New Approaches to Ernst Lubitsch - March 2024. Abstract. This essay focuses on The Merry Jail (1917) and So This Is Paris (1926)—two Lubitsch films that are based on the same primary source. Their genealogical affinity and ensuing similarities are the basis for an investigation of the impact of the cinematic incorporation of objects and media on filmic style.
16 de abr. de 2024 · Lubitsch's father had come from Russia to Berlin around 1880 and made his fortune in Konfektion. But his father was no poor Jewish peddler from a shtetl in Eastern Europe; he did not speak Yiddish, and he was a successful businessman who raised a family that was solidly upper middle-class—and secular.
