Sex, Politics, and Comedy
The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch
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Product details:
- Publisher Indiana University Press
- Date of Publication 2 June 2020
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9780253048332
- Binding Hardback
- See also 9780253048349
- No. of pages372 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 717 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 b&w illus. Illustrations, black & white 0
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Long description:
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Ernst Lubitsch (1982–1947) was one of the most successful and influential German filmmakers in American film comedy. In this volume, Rick McCormick argues for a more transnational view of Lubitsch's career and films with respect to nationality, ethnicity, migration, class, sexuality, and gender. McCormick focuses on Lubitsch's Jewishness, which is inseparable from the distinct transnational character of the director, categorizing his early films as ""Jewish comedies"" where Lubitsch strikes a tenuous balance between Jewish humor, antisemitic jokes, stereotypes, and the incorporation of antifascist subjects into his popular films. Above all, the larger political issues at stake in Lubitsch's work are brought forward: German-Jewish perspectives and experiences, the subtle treatment of covert political and social messages, and the relationship of comedy, especially sexual comedy, to emancipatory politics and, in particular, to the turbulent politics of Europe and the United States in the first half of the twentieth century.
The book discusses in depth the following films by Lubitsch: The Pride of the Firm (1914), Shoe Palace Pinkus (1916), Meyer From Berlin (1918), I Don't Want to Be a Man (1918), The Oyster Princess (1919), Madame Dubarry (1919), The Doll (1919), Sumurun (1920), The Wildcat (1921), The Marriage Circle (1924), The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927), The Love Parade (1929), The Man I Killed (1932), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Design for Living (1933), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), and To Be or Not to Be (1942).
Table of Contents:
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Transnational Jewish Comedy
I. Berlin: Sex, Spectacle, and Anarchy
1. From the Jewish ""Bad Boy"" to the ""Bad Girl"": Early Comedies, 1914–1919
2. Bad Girls and the Costume Epics: 1919–1922
3. Bad Girls Untamed: Anarchic/Fantastic Comedies (1919–1922)
II. Hollywood: From European Sophistication to Anti-Fascist Screwball
4. Sex & Sophistication: Comedies & Operettas, 1924–1934
5. Pushing the Boundaries in Pre-Code Hollywood, 1931–1934
6. Screwball Politics: American Populism & European Politics, 1935–41
7. Coming Out as Jewish: To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Epilogue: Twilight of a Cosmopolitan, 1943–47
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