John W. Fawell

Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (eBook, ePUB)

The Art of Classical Hollywood

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book takes a close look at a film that has heretofore been significantly undervalued by film scholars: Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. In so doing, it not only advocates for the elevation of the film within the canon of Lubitsch's films but also for an appreciation of the certain kind of filmmaking that it represents-one favored in the classical era of Hollywood which is characterized by aesthetics, meticulous structure, and delicate understatement over explicit content or social relevance. This book argues that The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg has perhaps been neglected because of the tendency in contemporary film criticism to devalue films that are not overtly "serious" in their subject matter. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg represents a master class in classical Hollywood technique, a kind of filmmaking that is characterized by charm, beauty, and elegant form and which chooses not to express its ideas explicitly but to encase them in the substance, structure, and very experience of the film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498578059
• Artikelnr.: 52989254

Autorenporträt

Jessica L. Griffin, PsyD, is professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, where she has been a faculty member since 2006. Griffin has been an expert and consultant on several television docuseries about relationships, marriage and divorce on A&E's Lifetime Television network including: Seven Year Switch, Married at First Sight, Honeymoon Island, and Happily Ever After. She has a private consulting and coaching business and is the CEO of LoveBuilder, which provides educational online courses to couples, singles, and parents. Dr. Jessica resides in Massachusetts. Pepper Schwartz, PhD, is a highly acclaimed relationship and sexuality professional. She is a professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she has created the Pepper Schwartz fellowship on intimate relationships and sexuality. She is also on the advisory board of the University of Minnesota Medical School's Program in Human Sexuality where they have created an endowed professorship in her name: the Pepper Schwartz Professorship on Sexuality and Life Cycle Aging. She is the only original expert on Married at First Sight and has remained with the franchise since Season One. She resides outside of Seattle.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Why the Neglect?
Chapter 2: The Rewards of Simplicity
Chapter 3: A Classical Sense of Balance
Chapter 4: A Larger Sense of Balance
Chapter 5: Matches
Chapter 6: Motifs
Chapter 7: The Art of Condensation
Chapter 8: Lubitsch's Use of Off-screen Space
Chapter 9: A Measured Expressiveness
Chapter 10: Lubitsch and Actors
Chapter 11: Lubitsch, Shearer and Kathi
Chapter 12: What Shearer Brings to the Equation
Chapter 13: The Film's "Ideas"
Chapter 14: Chaplin and Lubitsch
Chapter 15: Carl Davis' Orchestral Accompaniments
Bibliography
Index
About the Author