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

ISBN-13: 9780367887056 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 126 str.

Mason Kamana Allred

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Cinematic Historicity

1. Screening Pasts through Carnal Presence

2. Entangling Histories

3. History Class at 16 fps

4. Clio in Crisis

O autorze

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.