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Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

The Art of Classical Hollywood
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This book takes a close look at a film that has heretofore been significantly undervalued by film scholars: Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. In so doing, it not only advocates for the elevation of the film within the canon of Lubitsch's films but also for an appreciation of the certain kind of filmmaking that it represents-one favored in the classical era of Hollywood which is characterized by aesthetics, meticulous structure, and delicate understatement over explicit content or social relevance. This book argues that The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg has perhaps been neglected because of the tendency in contemporary film criticism to devalue films that are not overtly "serious" in their subject matter. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg represents a master class in classical Hollywood technique, a kind of filmmaking that is characterized by charm, beauty, and elegant form and which chooses not to express its ideas explicitly but to encase them in the substance, structure, and very experience of the film.
Introduction Chapter 1: Why the Neglect? Chapter 2: The Rewards of Simplicity Chapter 3: A Classical Sense of Balance Chapter 4: A Larger Sense of Balance Chapter 5: Matches Chapter 6: Motifs Chapter 7: The Art of Condensation Chapter 8: Lubitsch's Use of Off-screen Space Chapter 9: A Measured Expressiveness Chapter 10: Lubitsch and Actors Chapter 11: Lubitsch, Shearer and Kathi Chapter 12: What Shearer Brings to the Equation Chapter 13: The Film's "Ideas" Chapter 14: Chaplin and Lubitsch Chapter 15: Carl Davis' Orchestral Accompaniments Bibliography Index About the Author
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