1st Edition
New Approaches to Ernst Lubitsch A Light Touch
Biography
Brigitte Peucker is the Elias Leavenworth Professor of German and Film and Media Studies Emerita at Yale University. Her books on cinema include Incorporating Images: Film and the Rival Arts; The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film; and Aesthetic Spaces: The Place of Art in Film. She is the editor of Wiley-Blackwell’s A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Ido Lewit is a teaching fellow at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University. He is the co-editor of Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image.
"The Lubitsch touch, we might say, is also a ‚peep‘ that extends Richter’s own peep-show perspectives, engaging with moving image modernity. In the performative
peep-ology of the early Lubitsch filmography, keyhole shots, masks and perspectival sets also play with spectatorial desire, nodding to the other creator of cinematic meaning."
