Lubitsch, the poet of cynical wisdom? / Slavoj Žižek. Comedy in times of austerity / Aaron Schuster -- The joyful art of Ernst Lubitsch : Trouble in paradise / Russell Grigg -- What is so funny about multiple love? The polygamous Lubitsch touch / Robert Pealler -- Garbo laughs : revolution and melancholia in Lubitsch's Ninotchka / Tatjana Jukić -- To be or not to be? No, thank you / Mladen Dolar -- Lubitsch's war : comedy as political ploy in To be or not to be / Elisabeth Bronfen -- he Beard, the bust, and the plumed helmet / Gregor Moder -- Squirrels to the nuts, or, How many does it take to not give up on your desire? / Alenka Zupančič -- Lubitsch, the poet of cynical wisdom? / Slavoj Žižek.
Summary:
The contributions collected in this book examine Lubitsch's best Hollywood pictures from the 1930s and '40s -- Trouble in paradise, Design for living, Ninotchka, To be or not to be, and Cluny Borwn -- to demonstrate that comedy, at its best, is not merely a matter of providing comic relief.
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