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).
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