Refocus: The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781399532624)

ReFocus: The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch responds to and reframes the films of German émigré director Ernst Lubitsch as film-philosophical exemplars of both early world cinema and historical cinema, from his silent era costume dramas to his post-war Hollywood romances. This edited collection examines recent Lubitsch scholarship within the context of transcultural and transhistorical film theory to provide a critical retrospective of Lubitsch's costume films, historical epics, and marriage comedies across his three illustrious decades of international success.

Author: David John Boyd
ISBN-10: 1399532626
ISBN-13: 9781399532624
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2026
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback