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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