Episode 5: The Feel-Bad Film with Prof. Nikolaj Lübecker


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Oct 05 2023 60 mins   1

My guest this episode is Professor Nikolaj Lübecker, a French and film studies professor at Oxford who wrote the book The Feel-Bad Film. In this conversation, we talk about the different types of feel-bad films, catharsis, the ethical value of these films, and a lot more.


Show Notes:

Nikolaj Lübecker’s book The Feel-Bad Film

What is Literature? – Jean-Paul Sartre

Chroniques Du Temps Sensible – Julia Kristeva (for French speakers)


Films Mentioned:

Funny Games

Dogville

Elephant

I Can‘t Sleep

Cache

Innocence

Fat Girl

The Idiots

The Act of Killing

Monkey Ostrich Gray

Redacted

The Vanishing

Audition

In My Skin

Evolution

Nectar

Earwig

Harmonium

Show Me Love


Nikolaj Lübecker’s email: nikolaj.lubecker(at)sjc.ox.ac.uk


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