Ernst Lubitsch, Dramaturgy, Writing and Reference Cultures Between Europe and United States of America. (Intro+Chap.1) (original) (raw)

2018, Ernst Lubitsch, Dramaturgy writing and reference cultures between Europe and United States of America

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The work critically examines the unique storytelling style of Ernst Lubitsch, focusing on his early career in Germany and later success in Hollywood. It highlights Lubitsch's ability to engage audiences through complex narratives that subtly challenge social norms and cultural debates, particularly concerning gender roles and morality during the transition from silent to sound films. The interplay between the filmmaker, the audience, and historical context is emphasized, showcasing the significance of Lubitsch's contributions to cinematic language and technique.

Three Essays in Aesthetics: 1. A Theory of Art as a Threefold Relation Among Artist, Work of Art and Audience, 2. Toward a Theory of Narrative Film, and 3. An Analytical Description of the Film "Notorious

1974

The subjects of the three separate, but related essays in this dissertation are art in general, one particular art fora, and one individual work of art. The first essay, a continuous piece of sustained abstraction, primarily concerns the field of aesthetics, while the second, more concrete essay is drawn from material conceived as a book on the theory of the narrative film. The third essay, focusing on the field of cinema studies (an analytical description of "Notorious "), constitutes an example of the concreteness and precision which writing about film should achieve to be adequate to the complexity and unity of the great classic narrative films. Although all three essays reflect the same view of the nature of art, each one addresses a particular audience and a particular field and does not refer explicitly to either of the other essays. (JN)

Are you Afraid of the Cinema?': Du Cinéma and the Changing Question of Cinephilia and the Avant-Garde (1928-1930)

AmeriQuests, 2015

This essay considers José Corti’s early issues of Du Cinéma as part of an historical avant-garde complex that, in tandem with literary experiments, shaped another historical approach to early cinema criticism and theory by looking beyond cinephilia as a structuring paradigm. Identifying fear, rather than love, as a powerful avant-garde discourse, I suggest that Du Cinéma and especially the avant-garde writer André Delons forwarded a negative dialectical approach to cinematic thought, inquiry, and research. By investigating the enquête or questionnaire as a central research method in this avant-garde tradition, I reorient our understanding of Du Cinema's claim to the cinema's mutability, and its ability to reveal the limits of knowledge.

BOOK REVIEW: “The Emergence of Film Culture. Knowledge, Production, Institution Building and the Fate of the Avant-garde in Europe, 1919-1945, Book Review, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol° 35, N° 3, pp. 530-533, DOI:10.1080/01439685.2015.1059616

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