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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. This title focuses on the visual strategies Lubitsch used to convey irony and analyzes his contribution to the rise of classical narrative cinema.

Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsIntroduction3Pt. IThe Early Lubitsch - An Overview1From Comic Actor to Film Director, 1914-1918252The German Feature Films, 1918-1922373Hollywood - The Silent Films, 1923-1929584The American Sound Films, 1929-193270Pt. IIFilm Analyses5Wayward Women: The Oyster Princess, The Doll, and The Mountain Cat816The Period Film as Palimpsest: On Passion and Deception1147The Tyranny of Vision: So This Is Paris and Others1398Exploring the Boundaries of Sound: Monte Carlo1599The Object, the Image, the Cinema: Trouble in Paradise175Afterword200Select Bibliography207Index211

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/09/1992
      ISBN13: 9780691008783, 978-0691008783
      ISBN10: 0691008787
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      Book Synopsis
      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. This title focuses on the visual strategies Lubitsch used to convey irony and analyzes his contribution to the rise of classical narrative cinema.

      Table of Contents
      List of IllustrationsIntroduction3Pt. IThe Early Lubitsch - An Overview1From Comic Actor to Film Director, 1914-1918252The German Feature Films, 1918-1922373Hollywood - The Silent Films, 1923-1929584The American Sound Films, 1929-193270Pt. IIFilm Analyses5Wayward Women: The Oyster Princess, The Doll, and The Mountain Cat816The Period Film as Palimpsest: On Passion and Deception1147The Tyranny of Vision: So This Is Paris and Others1398Exploring the Boundaries of Sound: Monte Carlo1599The Object, the Image, the Cinema: Trouble in Paradise175Afterword200Select Bibliography207Index211

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