List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Ernst Lubitsch's Touch of the Past - David John Boyd Part I. Lubitsch's Costume Films: From Berlin to Hollywood (1914-27) 1. Eyeing Egypt: Transparent Orientalism on the Edge of Cinematic Modernity in The Eyes of Mummy Ma (1918) - Christina Parker-Flynn 2. Longing for Visual Attraction: Fashion and Fabrics as Sensual Quality in the Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch - Evelyn Echle 3. The Woven World-Image: Lubitsch, Deleuze and the Film-Philosophies of Fabric - David John Boyd 4. 'The Lubitsch Touch' under National Socialism: Lubitsch's Early Historicals and Their Influence on Nazi Film Aesthetics - Mina Radovic 5. 'Do You Know That You Two Are Married to Each Other?': The Oyster Princess and The Doll (1919) as Farces of Sex and Class - Ciara Moloney 6. Carnival, Spectatorship and Desire in Rosita (1923) - Irene Rihuete Varea Part II.

Lubitsch's Pre-Code Imaginary (1928-33) 7. Lubitsch's 'Hidden Jewish Touch': Jewish Anxieties and Gallic Desires - Craig Svonkin 8. 'This Is Real!': Money in Trouble in Paradise (1932) - Kyle Stine Part III. Lubitsch's Émigré Hollywood (1934-48) 9. The Earnest Turn in Ernst's Historiography - Amin Heidari 10. Pariah Humour: Ernst Lubitsch's Refugee Comedies - Fabrizio S. Ciccone 11. Fighting Fascism: Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942) - Jan-Christopher Horak 12.

Ernst Lubitsch in Dialogue with History - Margie Burns 13. History and/as Genre in the Work of Fritz Lang and Ernst Lubitsch - Matthew Williamson 14. Remaking Lubitsch in Hong Kong Cinema: The Ninotchka Trope in Her Fatal Ways (1991) - Jessica Siu-yin Yeung Index.