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Title
Žižek through Hitchcock / Laurence Simmons.
Author
Simmons, Laurence.
ISBN
9783030624361 (electronic bk.)
3030624366 (electronic bk.)
3030624358
9783030624354
3030624366 (electronic bk.)
3030624358
9783030624354
Imprint
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language
English
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10.1007/978-3-030-62436-1 doi
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PN1995.9.P7
Dewey Decimal Classification
199.4973
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
From H to Z: Introduction
Chapter 1. The objet petit a
Chapter 2. The Real
Chapter 3. The sinthome
Chapter 4. Metastases
Chapter 5. Jouissance
Chapter 6. Fantasy: Che vuoi?
Chapter 7. Pauline Christianity
Coda: Does Hitchcock Remake Zizek?
Chapter 1. The objet petit a
Chapter 2. The Real
Chapter 3. The sinthome
Chapter 4. Metastases
Chapter 5. Jouissance
Chapter 6. Fantasy: Che vuoi?
Chapter 7. Pauline Christianity
Coda: Does Hitchcock Remake Zizek?