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  • The Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch

    Comedy Without Relief

    by Ivana Novak, Gregor Moder, Jela Krecic, Yuval Kremnitzer, Aaron Schuster, Mladen Dolar, Robert Pfaller, Alenka Zupancic ...
    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 ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Object of Comedy

    Philosophies and Performances

    Edited by Jamila M. H. Mascat, Gregor Moder ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    What is the object of comedy? What makes us laugh and why? Is comedy subversive, restorative or reparative? What is at stake politically, socially and metaphysically when it comes to comedic performances? This book investigates not only the object of comedy but also its objectives – both its deliberate goals and its unintended side effects.In researching the object of comedy, the contributions ... Read more

    $116.09 USD