Description: Explores German-American filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch's engagement with and expressions of historicity throughout his career.
Brief description: David John Boyd is a post-doctoral research fellow of the Stirling Maxwell Centre in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses include historical representation in film, film-philosophies of embodiment, and theories of intermediality and adaptation in global visual culture. His recent publications include From Glasgow to Gotham: The Comics Art of Frank Quitely with Julie Briand-Boyd (forthcoming 2025) and Deleuze and Global Animation: Estranged Images (forthcoming 2026).
Review Quotes: This collection of essays steps back from the scholarly framework of the 'LubitschTouch' and provides new methodological and theoretical approaches to understanding how, why, and for whom, Lubitsch deploys historiography in his costume dramas, operettas, and comedies.--Blake Von Tilzer "Film & History"