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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.

Lubitsch, Ernst --- Silent films --- Films muets --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Lubitsch, Ernst, --- Criticism and interpretation --- History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Film. --- Motion picture producers and directors --- Films. --- Silent films. --- Histoire et critique. --- Lubitsch, Ernst. --- Critique et interpretation. --- Bibel --- Germany. --- Moving pictures, Silent --- Silent motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Philemonbrief --- <> Brief an Philemon --- Phlm --- Philem --- Philm --- Phm --- Film --- Flm --- Fm --- Epistula ad Philomenem --- <> letter to Philemon --- Epître à Philémon --- Epistle to Philemon --- Paulus --- Alemania --- Ashkenaz --- BRD --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Deguo --- 德国 --- Deutsches Reich --- Deutschland --- Doitsu --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- FRN --- Gėrman --- German Uls --- Герман Улс --- Germania --- Germanii︠a︡ --- Germanyah --- Gjermani --- Grossdeutsches Reich --- Jirmānīya --- KhBNGU --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Nimechchyna --- Repoblika Federalin'i Alemana --- República de Alemania --- República Federal de Alemania --- Republika Federal Alemmana --- Vācijā --- Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Weimar Republic --- Weimarer Republik --- ХБНГУ --- Германия --- جرمانيا --- ドイツ --- ドイツ連邦共和国 --- ドイツ レンポウ キョウワコク --- Germany (East) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (West) --- Holy Roman Empire --- Angel. --- Anna Boleyn. --- Austernprinzessin, Die. --- Berger, Ludwig. --- Bergkatze, Die. --- Blind Husbands. --- Boese, Carl. --- Bourget, Jean-Loup. --- Buchanan, Jack. --- Buchowetzki, Dimitri. --- Capra, Frank. --- Carmen. --- Chevalier, Maurice. --- Colbert, Claudette. --- Corliss, Richard. --- Danton. --- Davidson, Paul. --- Design for Living. --- Dingelmann, Wilhelm. --- Doane, Mary Ann. --- Dreier, Hans. --- Durgnat, Raymond. --- Ebert, Friedrich. --- Eisenstein, Sergei. --- Eisner, Lotte. --- Fall, Leo. --- Forbidden Paradise. --- Ford, John. --- Froelich, Carl. --- Fräulein Seifenschaum. --- Genuine. --- Grafe, Frieda. --- Gregor, Ulrich. --- Hallelujah. --- Hasenclever, Walter. --- Hintertreppe. --- HufF, Theodore. --- If I Had a Million. --- Intolerance. --- Iser, Wolfgang. --- Jacobs, Lewis. --- Janson, Victor. --- Kracauer, Siegfried. --- Lang, Fritz. --- Lombard, Carole. --- Monsieur Beaucaire. --- Negri, Pola. --- Ossis Tagebuch. --- Oswalda, Ossi. --- Porten, Henny. --- Rausch. --- Réveillon. --- Shearer, Norma. --- Tannenbaum, Eugen. --- Lubitsch, Ernesto --- Filmregisseur --- Schauspieler --- Filmproduzent --- Drehbuchautor --- Berlin --- Los Angeles- Bel Air, Calif. --- Oswalda, Ossi --- 29.01.1892-30.11.1947 --- 1892-1947 --- Europe