Passions and Deceptions: The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch

by SabineHake (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1992

  $49.16

  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. This title focuses on the visual strategies Lubitsch used to convey irony and analyzes his contribution to the rise of classical narrative cinema.