@article{1436637,
      recid = {1436637},
      author = {Simmons, Laurence.},
      title = {Žižek through Hitchcock /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2021},
      abstract = {Maverick Slovenian cultural theorist, philosopher and  psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek 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 Zizeks pretensions to  cinephilia and film criticism seriously? In this book,  adopting Zizeks own tactic of counterintuitive observation,  we shall read the corpus of Alfred Hitchcocks films (one of  the great achievements of Western civilization) and Zizeks  idiosyncratic citation of them in order to arrive at a  position where we can identify the core commitments that  inform Zizeks own work. From the practice of Hitchcock we  shall (hopefully) arrive at a theory of Zizek (just as  Zizek in his collection Everything You Always Wanted to  Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) (Verso,  1992) arrives at a theory of Lacan from the practice of  Hitchcock). To achieve this goal each chapter looks at a  specific film by Hitchcock and explores a specific key  concept crucial to the elaboration and core of Zizeks  ideas.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1436637},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62436-1},
}