Ernst Lubitsch & the Transnational Twenties: The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (USA 1927)
TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Rick McCormick Download PDF Abstract Ernst Lubitsch epitomized the transnationalism of the cinema in the 1920s as the first German director to come to Hollywood and one who brought over a number of German film artists to Hollywood over the course of the decade. In America he followed developments in […]
Points of Entanglement: The Overdetermination of German Space and Identity in Lola + Bilidikid and Walk on Water
Nicholas Baer Download PDF Abstract: In this essay, I consider how films have engaged with the politics of German space and identity in the context of the country’s National Socialist past – and, more specifically, in the context of relations between and among Germans, Jews, and Turks. I analyze scenes from two recent films, Turkish […]