The Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch (eBook, ePUB)

Comedy Without Relief
Redaktion: Novak, Ivana; Moder, Gregor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Against the idea that comedy offers us a relief from the horrors of the real world, the German-Jewish-American filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch defended his masterpiece To Be or Not to Be, a comedy from 1942 about the concurrent Nazi occupation of Poland, with the claim that he had made up his mind "to make a picture with no attempt to relieve anybody from anything at any time." The essays included in The Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch consider Lubitsch's work from his early Berlin years to his Hollywood fame, emphasizing the idea of 'comedy without relief' as the fundamental ethical premise of his special cinematic 'touch.' In this edited collection, contributors take a closer look at how Lubitsch addresses delicate and controversial topics like sexuality, love, and revolution, and set out a picture of an engaged ethics without moralism. The Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch is a vital contribution to film scholarship and a tribute to an essential filmmaker.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538146170
• Artikelnr.: 74628427

Autorenporträt

Edited by Gregor Moder and Ivana Novak - Contributions by Mladen Dolar; Jela Krecic; Yuval Kremnitzer; Gregor Moder; Ivana Novak; Robert Pfaller; Aaron Schuster and Alenka Zupancic

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch by Gregor Moder and Ivana Novak Section One. POLITICS AND REVOLUTION Chapter 1: An Uprising with a Lubitsch Touch by Alenka Zupan
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Chapter 2: Communist Ninotchka by Aaron Schuster Section Two. THEATER AND COMICALITY Chapter 3: The Uncanny and the Comic: Freud avec Lubitsch by Mladen Dolar Chapter 4: Lubitsch, Shakespeare, and the Theatricality of Power by Gregor Moder Chapter 5: What Touches Me Under My Ego. Comicality in Lubitsch, and its Psychoanalytic Structure by Robert Pfaller Section Three. LOVE AND SEX Chapter 6: Lubitsch's Women, or, Why Women Deserve Love and Money by Jela Kre
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Chapter 7: The Princess Learns to Wink: Lubitsch and the Politics of the Obscene by Yuval Kremnitzer Chapter 8: The Disenchantment and the Restoration of Love in The Shop Around the Cornerby Ivana Novak Index About the Contributors