Beschreibung:
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 Can't Wait (2014), Stanley Cavell: Refleksija filma (2015), and Do zadnjega smeha: Preston Sturges (2016).
The collected essays in this book offer philosophical perspectives on the films of Ernst Lubitsch, the leading figure of comedy in the 20th century.
Introduction: The Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch by Gregor Moder and Ivana Novak