Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood
Kristin Thompson
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Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood
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Ernst Lubitsch, the German film director who left Berlin for Hollywood in 1923, is best remembered for the famous "Lubitsch touch" in such masterpieces as Trouble in Paradise and Ninotchka, featuring Greta Garbo. Kristin Thompson's study focuses on Lubitsch's silent films from the years between 1918 and 1927, tracing the impact this director had on consolidating classical Hollywood filmmaking. She gives a new assessment of the stylistic two-way traffic between the American and the German film industries, after World War I each other's strongest rival in Europe. By 1919, Lubitsch had emerged as the finest proponent of the German studio style: sophisticated, urbane and thoroughly professionalized. He was quick to absorb 'American' innovations and stylistic traits, becoming the unique master of both systems and contributing to the golden ages of the American as well as the German cinema. Utilizing Lubitsch's silent films as a key to two great national cinemas, Thompson's meticulously illustrated and extensively researched book goes beyond an authorial study and breaks new ground in cinema history. Click on the PDF button to download the table of contents

De succesvolle Duitse filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch, die in de twintiger jaren Berlijn verruilde voor Hollywood, is vandaag de dag nog steeds bekend om meesterwerken als Ninotchka en The Shop around the Corner. De beroemde 'Lubitsch Touch', zoals men zijn unieke stijl karakteriseerde, werd bedacht door slimme studiobazen om Lubitsch als merknaam te poneren. In Herr Lubitsch goes to Hollywood bestudeert Kristin Thompson de stomme films die Ernst Lubitsch maakte tussen 1918 en 1927. Zijn vroege werk biedt een uniek uitgangspunt voor een vergelijking tussen de klassieke Hollywoord films uit die jaren en de Duitse films die gemaakt werden na de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Het resultaat is een diepgaande analyse van twee belangrijke filmstijlen in de levendige beginjaren van de filmgeschiedenis. Klik op de knop PDF om de inhoudsopgave in te zien.

Language
English
ISBN
90-5356-709-7
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Lubitsch: The Filmmakers’ Filmmaker
Lubitsch’s Place in Two National Cinemas
The Standard Story: Germany Escapes Hollywood’s Influence
Chapter One: Lubitsch’s Career
Studying the Conditions of Influence
Lubitsch and the German Film Industry
Lubitsch’s Reputation in the 1920s
Areas of Stylistic Influence
Chapter Two: Making the Light Come from the Story: Lighting
Different Lighting Equipment
Different Conceptions of Lighting
Lubitsch and the German Norm
Germany’s Discovery of Three-point Lighting
Lubitsch Masters Three-point Lighting in Hollywood
Three-point Lighting and Expressionism
Chapter Three: Subduing the Cluttered Background: Set Design
Classical Norms of Set Design
Lubitsch and German Set Design
Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood
Lubitsch’s Work with His Hollywood Art Directors
Chapter Four: Guiding the Viewer’s Attention: Editing
Lubitsch the Editor
Editing in Postwar German Films
Lubitsch’s Hollywood Films
Chapter Five: Peeking at the Players: Acting
The Survival of Pantomimic Acting in Post-War German Cinema
Lubitsch’s German Features
Lubitsch’s Hollywood Features
Chapter Six: Mutual Influences
Equipping for Influence: The Modernization of German Studios
German Cinema Goes Hollywood
Contemporary Discussions of American-Style Techniques
Distinctively German Devices and Their Impact
Epilogue: The Lubitsch Touch
Notes
Filmography
Index
Figures
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