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The Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch: Comedy Without Relief
By Mladen Dolar (Contribution by), Jela Krecic (Contribution by), Yuval Kremnitzer (Contribution by), Gregor Moder (Contribution by), Ivana Novak (Contribution by), Robert Pfaller (Contribution by), Aaron Schuster (Contribution by), Alenka Zupancic (Contribution by), Gregor Moder (Editor), Ivana Novak (Editor)
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By Mladen Dolar (Contribution by), Jela Krecic (Contribution by), Yuval Kremnitzer (Contribution by), Gregor Moder (Contribution by), Ivana Novak (Contribution by), Robert Pfaller (Contribution by), Aaron Schuster (Contribution by), Alenka Zupancic (Contribution by), Gregor Moder (Editor), Ivana Novak (Editor)
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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...