The Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-4616-3 (ISBN)
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.
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.”
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 Zupančič
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 Krečič
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.08.2024 |
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| Co-Autor | Mladen Dolar, Jela Krecic, Yuval Kremnitzer |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 445 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-4616-9 / 1538146169 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-4616-3 / 9781538146163 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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