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Enjoy Your Symptom! by Slavoj Zizek
SciFier: $43.10The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst's couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan... -
Opera's Second Death Slavoj Zizek 9780415930178
SciFier: $83.51Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the... -
Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide Christopher Kul-Want 9781848312937
RRP: $16.94SciFier: $8.46Charting his meteoric rise in popularity, Christopher Kul-Want and Piero explore Zizek's timely analyses of today's global crises concerning ecology, mounting poverty, war, civil unrest and... -
The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Film M. Flisfeder 9781349344352
RRP: $95.38SciFier: $84.59Returning to questions about ideology and subjectivity, Flisfeder argues that Slavoj Zizek's theory of film aims to re-politicize film studies and film theory, bringing cinema into the fold of... -
The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Film M. Flisfeder 9780230341470
SciFier: $99.62Returning to questions about ideology and subjectivity, Flisfeder argues that Slavoj Zizek's theory of film aims to re-politicize film studies and film theory, bringing cinema into the fold of... -
The Fright of Real Tears by Slavoj Zizek (Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK)
SciFier: $208.80In this study the author challenges both cognitivist-historicist accounts of cinema and conventional film-theory. Arguing that the reading of Lacan operative in the 1970s and 1980s was particularly... -
Zizek through Hitchcock by Laurence Simmons
RRP: $233.18SciFier: $153.68Maverick 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... -
Quentin Tarantino and Film Theory: Aesthetics and Dialectics in Late Postmodernity Federico Pagello 9783030438210
SciFier: $199.34This book examines a set of theoretical perspectives that critically engage with the notion of postmodernism, investigating whether this concept is still useful to approach contemporary cinema. This... -
Quentin Tarantino and Film Theory: Aesthetics and Dialectics in Late Postmodernity Federico Pagello 9783030438180
SciFier: $199.34This book examines a set of theoretical perspectives that critically engage with the notion of postmodernism, investigating whether this concept is still useful to approach contemporary cinema. This... -
Ideology and the Virtual City by Jon Bailes
SciFier: $24.36Ideology and the Virtual City is an exploration of modern society and the critical value of popular culture. It combines a prescient social theory that describes how `neoliberal' ideology in today's... -
Gaming the System: Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds David J. Gunkel 9780253035721
RRP: $148.40SciFier: $118.47Gaming the System takes philosophical traditions out of the ivory tower and into the virtual worlds of video games. In this book, author David J. Gunkel explores how philosophical traditions-put... -
Gaming the System: Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds David J. Gunkel 9780253035714
RRP: $59.34SciFier: $47.83Gaming the System takes philosophical traditions out of the ivory tower and into the virtual worlds of video games. In this book, author David J. Gunkel explores how philosophical traditions-put... -
Sexual Difference in European Cinema: The Curse of Enjoyment F. Vighi 9780230549258
SciFier: $99.62What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at Jacques Lacan's theory of sexuality alongside some of the best-known... -
On the Act of Looking: Reading Joshua Oppenheimer's Diptych: The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence David Denny (Portland State University, USA) 9781501347900
SciFier: $197.14This collection analyzes Joshua Oppenheimer's diptych The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence as a cinematic event that invites interrelated questions on historical memory, truth and... -
Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Zizek and Cavell Colin Davis 9780804763073
RRP: $40.26SciFier: $34.66The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical... -
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Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek and Cavell Colin Davis 9780804763066 [USED COPY]
RRP: $169.60SciFier: $29.43The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical... -
The Impossible David Lynch Todd McGowan (University of Vermont) 9780231139557
RRP: $59.36SciFier: $48.04Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre. He studies Lynch's talent for blending the bizarre and the normal to emphasize the odd... -
Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmare Steven Jay Schneider (New York University and Harvard University, Massachusetts) 9780521107853
SciFier: $61.46Psychoanalytic theory has been the subject of attacks from philosophers, cultural critics and scientists who have questioned the cogency of its reasoning as well as the soundness of its premises... -
Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmare Steven Jay Schneider (New York University and Harvard University, Massachusetts) 9780521825214
SciFier: $216.22Psychoanalytic theory has been the subject of attacks from philosophers, cultural critics and scientists who have questioned the cogency of its reasoning as well as the soundness of its premises... -
MASKS by James Curcio
SciFier: $88.09This interdisciplinary anthology explores the complex relationships in an artist's life between fact and fiction, presentation and existence, and critique and creation, and examines the work that... -
Out of Time by Todd McGowan
RRP: $46.62SciFier: $37.95In Out of Time, Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in cinema that arose in response to the digital era. Linking developments in cinema to current debates... -
Pasolini by Stefania Benini
RRP: $112.36SciFier: $91.46Poet, novelist, dramatist, polemicist, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to be one of the most influential intellectuals of post-war Italy. In Pasolini: The Sacred Flesh, Stefania Benini... -
The Cinema of Economic Miracles by Angelo Restivo
RRP: $44.50SciFier: $42.89The Italian art cinema of the 1960s is known worldwide for its brilliance and vitality. Yet rarely has this cinema been considered in relation to the profound economic and cultural changes that... -
Placeness and the Performative Production of Space Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, UK) 9781350349858
SciFier: $65.70How can performance create and transform places of urban renewal and regeneration? What does performance contribute to the creation of community? These are some of the questions addressed in this... -
St. Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini
RRP: $36.02SciFier: $26.50Presented here for the first time in English is a remarkable screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, legendary filmmaker, novelist, poet, and radical intellectual activist... -
The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema by Kyung Hyun Kim
RRP: $50.86SciFier: $47.83In one of the first English-language studies of Korean cinema to date, Kyung Hyun Kim shows how the New Korean Cinema of the past quarter century has used the trope of masculinity to mirror the... -
Marx Returns by Jason Barker
RRP: $29.66SciFier: $20.84Karl Marx is a revolutionary. He is not alone. It is November 1849 and London is full of them: a bunch of fanatical dreamers trying to change the world. Persecuted by a tyrannical housekeeper and... -
Knots: Post-Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film JEAN MICHEL RABATE 9781032239903
SciFier: $92.71This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory, queer studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, and deconstruction... -
Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9780415590983
SciFier: $81.68In Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions, Warren Buckland asks a series of questions about how film theory gets written in the first place:How does it select its objects of study and its methods of... -
The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Cinema Frances Restuccia 9781441107572
SciFier: $80.54This title looks at films that map the spectator's private fantasy onto the one being played out on the screen, following Kristeva's sparse, but revolutionary, film theory. Informed by the theory of... -
European Cinema and Continental Philosophy: Film As Thought Experiment Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) 9781441182210
SciFier: $82.15This groundbreaking volume for the Thinking Cinema series focuses on the extent to which contemporary cinema contributes to political and philosophical thinking about the future of Europe's core... -
The Politics of Insects: David Cronenberg's Cinema of Confrontation Scott Wilson (Unitec, Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand) 9781623563394
SciFier: $95.38Canadian film director David Cronenberg has long been a figure of artistic acclaim and public controversy. Bursting into view with a trio of shocking horror films in the 1970s, Cronenberg's work has... -
After the Red Army Faction: Gender, Culture, and Militancy Charity Scribner 9780231168649
SciFier: $97.80Masterminded by women, the Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorized West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s. Afterimages of its leaders persist in the works of pivotal artists and writers, including... -
Do The Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes Dr Ben Saunders 9780826441980
SciFier: $59.34This title is a consideration of the modern Superhero comic as an expression of spiritual desire, showing what Superheroes can teach about our most essential human needs. Ben Saunders shows that...