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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.
Contents
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
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