Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch

Comedy Without Relief

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-08-22
Mått157 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt445 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor176
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538146163

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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 ZupancicChapter 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 KrecicChapter 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

The title of this superb volume tells it all: it treats Ernst Lubitsch not just as a great director of comedies but as an author whose movies confront the basic ethical dilemmas of his time. Lubitsch is the greatest philosopher among movie directors, much greater than the celebrated art-movies classics. Is this not reason enough to read The Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch for all who care about the mess we’re in?