The Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch

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 Cant 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 Zupani 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: Lubitschs Women, or, Why Women Deserve Love and Money by Jela Krei 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