Passions and Deceptions: The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch

by Sabine Hake

A collaborator with Warner Brothers and Paramount in the early days of sound film, the German film director Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) is famous for his sense of ironic detachment and for the eroticism he infused into such comedies as So This Is Paris and Trouble in Paradise. In a general introduction to his silent and early sound films (1914-1932) and in close readings of his comedies, Sabine Hake focuses on the visual strategies Lubitsch used to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691008787
• ISBN13: 9780691008783
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"