Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

The Art of Classical Hollywood

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-06-20
Mått157 x 241 x 18 mm
Vikt426 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498578042

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IntroductionChapter 1: Why the Neglect?Chapter 2: The Rewards of SimplicityChapter 3: A Classical Sense of BalanceChapter 4: A Larger Sense of BalanceChapter 5: MatchesChapter 6: MotifsChapter 7: The Art of CondensationChapter 8: Lubitsch’s Use of Off-screen SpaceChapter 9: A Measured ExpressivenessChapter 10: Lubitsch and ActorsChapter 11: Lubitsch, Shearer and KathiChapter 12: What Shearer Brings to the EquationChapter 13: The Film’s “Ideas”Chapter 14: Chaplin and LubitschChapter 15: Carl Davis’ Orchestral AccompanimentsBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

‘Lubitsch can’t wait!’ clamor fans and scholars of this consummate and delicate director as they ask for renewed appreciation of his resonant art. John Fawell answers their clarion call with an analysis that is eloquent and elegant, ever so attuned to the soft and subtle quietudes of Lubitsch’s art as exhibited in the key film The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. This is a lovely and loving study that well shows Lubitsch’s pride of place in Hollywood silent cinema.