From Germany to Hollywood – Lubitsch, Lang & Sirk

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Thursday evenings 6.30 - 9.00pm for six weeks, 22nd January to 5th March (no class5th February) 2026.

By the end of the Great War, America’s film industry had emerged as the largest in the world. A key part of that success was Hollywood’s ability to attract talent from other countries, bringing in new expertise and creativity while simultaneously weakening their foreign rivals. The German film industry in particular produced many great directors who were later lured to Hollywood, and in this course we will focus on three of the most notable – Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang and Douglas Sirk. Through complete films and numerous extracts, we will compare their work in Germany to their later films in the US. From comedy classics to epic fantasy, film noir and lush romantic melodrama, these three visionaries created some of the most outstanding films of the 20th century.

Tutor: Matthew Jarron

Matthew is Curator of Museum Services at the University of Dundee, looking after a collection of over 30,000 objects, artworks and specimens and running the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, the Tayside Medical History Museum, and the exhibition programme in the Tower Foyer & Lamb Galleries. He also has a lifelong passion for cinema and has taught film history evening classes in Dundee since 2001.

Course Code 09 211

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