Sex, Politics, and Comedy
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04834-9 (ISBN)
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).
Rick McCormick is a Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity: Film, Literature, and "New Objectivity" and Politics of the Self: Feminism and the Postmodern in West German Literature and Film.
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
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.01.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | German Jewish Cultures |
Zusatzinfo | 30 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | Bloomington, IN |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-253-04834-6 / 0253048346 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-04834-9 / 9780253048349 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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