¿i¿ek through Hitchcock
Maverick Slovenian cultural theorist, philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj ¿i¿ek has made his name elaborating the complexities of psychoanalytic and Marxist theory through the exotic use of examples from film and popular culture. But what if we were to take ¿i¿ek¿s pretensions to cinephilia and film criticism seriously? In this book, adopting ¿i¿ek¿s own tactic of counterintuitive observation, we shall read the corpus of Alfred Hitchcock¿s films (¿one of the great achievements of Western civilization¿) and ¿i¿ek¿s idiosyncratic citation of them in order to arrive at a position where we can identify the core commitments that inform ¿i¿ek¿s ow…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-030-62438-5
- EAN: 9783030624385
- Produktnummer: 38905329
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D2.0 cm 496 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 496
Über den Autor
Laurence Simmons is Professor of Film Studies in Media and Communication at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has written extensively on New Zealand and Italian cinema, as well as works of critical theory including the co-edited volume From Z to A: Zizek at the Antipodes (2005).
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