Weimar Cinema, Embodiment, and Historicity - Cultural Memory and the Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch

List of contents

Introduction: Cinematic Historicity
1. Screening Pasts through Carnal Presence
2. Entangling Histories
3. History Class at 16 fps
4. Clio in Crisis

About the author

Mason Kamana Allred is a historian and volume editor at the Joseph Smith Papers. His interdisciplinary work on film and media history has appeared in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Jewish Studies Quarterly, and The Journal of Popular Culture as well as the edited collections Dorian: A Peculiar Edition and Film and History.

Summary

Combining historicization with close readings of German director Ernst Lubitsch's historical films, this book focuses on an early turning point in this development, exploring how the medium of film shaped modern historical experience and understanding—how it moved embodied audiences through moving images.

Additional text

"This bookrecovers Ernst Lubitsch’s important early historical films and shows how they provide insights into the ways in which cinematic experience has shaped historical experience to this day." -Todd Herzog, University of Cincinnati

Product details

• Authors: Mason Kamana Allred, Allred Mason Kamana
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.2017
• EAN: 9780415349185
• ISBN: 978-0-415-34918-5
• No. of pages: 134
• Series: Routledge Focus on Film Studies; Routledge Focus on Film Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Films, cinema, Historiography, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General