Sex, politics, and comedy the transnational cinema of Ernst Lubitsch
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington, Indiana
Indiana University Press
[2020]©2020, 2020
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| Series: | German Jewish cultures
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : transnational Jewish comedy
- I. Berlin : sex, spectacle, and anarchy. 1. From the Jewish "Bad boy" to the "Bad girl" : early comedies, 1914-18 ; 2. Bad girls in the costume epics, 1919-22 ; 3. Bad girls untamed : anarchic/fantastic comedies, 1919-22
- II. Hollywood : from European sophistication to antifascist screwball. 4. Sex and sophistication : comedies and operettas, 1923-34 ; 5. Pushing the boundaries in the pre-code Hollywood, 1931-34 ; 6. Screwball politics : American populism and European politics, 1935-41 ; 7. Coming out as Jewish : to be or not to be, 1942
- Epilogue: Twilight of a cosmopolitan, 1943-47
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-333), filmography, and index