This collection considers Lubitsch, the famous author of Weimar and classical Hollywood cinema, as a role model for our times. From this ethical position Lubitsch's cinema is regarded as a conceptual tool to unlock the serious issues of contemporary politics, culture, philosophy, philosophy of art and theatre. It is not only the socio-political or philosophical context of Lubitsch's work that is at stake in these chapters; they go deeper than a simple film reading to explore Lubitsch as a lexicon with which we can analyze and explore the issues of our time.The authors explore implications of films for political philosophy and re-think his ideas of revolution, communism, and capitalism (films such as Ninotchka, Oyster Princess). Many authors explore Lubitsch's indirect approach to sexuality as a way to maintain the romantic and mysterious nature of sex in our time, as instead as a source of obscenity and awkwardness. Authors also explore radical political incorrectness and vileness of his characters, suggesting that one can solve the tyranny of PC and the absence of humor today with the help of Lubitsch. They also explore his feminism that could be used as a contrast to the #MeToo movement.
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The collected essays in this book offer philosophical perspectives on the films of Ernst Lubitsch, the leading figure of comedy in the 20th century.
Introduction: The Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch by Gregor Moder and Ivana NovakSection One. POLITICS AND REVOLUTIONChapter 1: An Uprising with a Lubitsch Touch by Alenka ZupančičChapter 2: Communist Ninotchka by Aaron SchusterSection Two. THEATER AND COMICALITYChapter 3: The Uncanny and the Comic: Freud avec Lubitsch by Mladen DolarChapter 4: Lubitsch, Shakespeare, and the Theatricality of Power by Gregor ModerChapter 5: What Touches Me Under My Ego. Comicality in Lubitsch, and its Psychoanalytic Structure by Robert Pfaller Section Three. LOVE AND SEXChapter 6: Lubitsch’s Women, or, Why Women Deserve Love and Money by Jela KrečičChapter 7: The Princess Learns to Wink: Lubitsch and the Politics of the Obscene by Yuval KremnitzerChapter 8: The Disenchantment and the Restoration of Love in The Shop Around the Cornerby Ivana NovakIndexAbout the Contributors
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ISBN
9781538146163
Publisert
2024-08-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield
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445 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
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Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
176

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Ivana Novak is a curator of the film programme at the Slovenian national television (RTV Slovenija). She is a film critic and theoretician, a musician and a PhD candidate at the University of Ljubljana. Her main topics of research are humour and comedy, classical American and European cinema and television series. She has co-edited several books: Lubitsch Can’t Wait (2014), Stanley Cavell: Refleksija filma (2015), and Do zadnjega smeha: Preston Sturges (2016).

Gregor Moder is a senior research associate in the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of Comic Love: Shakespeare, Hegel, Lacan (2016) and Hegel and Spinoza: Substance and Negativity (2017), and he coedited The Object of Comedy: Philosophies and Performances (2020). He is currently the principal investigator in a research project on the “Theatricality of Power.”