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A Theoretical Examination

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An edition of Lubitsch Can't Wait: A Theoretical Examination (2014)

Lubitsch Can't Wait

A Theoretical Examination

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Ernst Lubitsch, the great author of Hollywood comedy and pioneer of such genres as thesophisticated romantic comedy, the musical, and the screwball comedy, is a relatively overlooked figure in mainstream film theory. In this collection, renowned world thinkers and philosophers position Lubitsch as the premium director of subversive cinema, reflecting on his attitude toward love, sexuality, politics...

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Columbia University Press, Slovenska kinoteka
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English
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240

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Subjects
comedy, film, Hollywood, philosophy, Comedy films, Lubitsch, ernst, 1892-1947, Congresses, Criticism and interpretation, History and criticism
People
Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947), Slavoj Žižek (1949-)
Places
Ljubljana

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Table of Contents

0. Ivana Novak, Jela Krečič, eds.: Lubitsch can't wait
1 Aaron Schuster: Comedy in Times of Austerity
2 Russell Grigg: The Joyful Art of Ernst Lubitsch: Trouble in Paradise
3 Robert Pfaller: What is so funny about multiple love? The polygamous Lubitsch touch
4 Tatjana Jukic: Garbo laughs: Revolution and melancholia in Lubitsch's Ninotchka
5 Mladen Dolar: To Be or Not to Be? No, thank you
6 Elisabeth Bronfen: Lubitsch's War: Comedy as political ploy in To Be or Not to Be
7 Gregor Moder: The Beard, the Bust, and the Plumed Helmet
8 Alenka Zupančič: Squirrels to the Nuts, or, How many does it take to not give up on your desire?
9 Slavoj Zizek: Lubitsch, the poet of cynical wisdom?
Appendix: Index of names and film titles

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Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Library of Congress
PN1998.3, PN1998.3.L83 L833 2014, PN1995.9.C55 L83 2014

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Editor
Ivana Novak, Mladen Dolar, Jela Krečič

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Paperback
Number of pages
240

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OL26361687M
ISBN 10
9616417843
ISBN 13
9789616417846
OCLC/WorldCat
880393738

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