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

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

Update: 2023-10-05
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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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Episode 5: The Feel-Bad Film with Prof. Nikolaj Lübecker

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

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