Ernst Lubitsch’s I Don’t Want to Be a Man! (Ich mochte kein Mann sein!, Germany, 1918) was screened in the context of Silke Arnold-de Simine's discussion on cross-dressing in silent film.
Cross-dressing in silent film
In her Arts Week blog, Rosalyn Croek, a student on Birkbeck’s MA Cultural Studies describes the 'good old-fashioned Friday night entertainment' of wine and a showing of Ernst Lubitsch’s I Don’t Want to Be a Man! (Ich mochte kein Mann sein!, Germany, 1918), screened in the context of Silke Arnold-de Simine's discussion on cross-dressing in silent film.
This event was in part a launch for the book Silke has co-written with Christine Mielke on cross dressing in German film comedies from 1912 to 2012. The book is only available in German but others can consult a chapter Silke wrote in the most recent Wiley-Blackwell Companion to German Cinema, about Weimar cross-dressing comedies and their Hollywood remakes.
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