Description
In 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 reductive, he asserts that there is "another Lacan" in reference to whom film theory, cultural studies and critical thought as such can be transformed and revitalized. He supports this argument with readings of Tarkovsky ("Stalker", "Nostalghia"), Kieslowski (the "Three Colours Trilogy") and Lynch ("Lost Highways"), demonstrating how their work can be saved from obscurantist analysis by Lacanian interpretation.
About the Author
Slavoj Zizek, senior researcher at the Department of Philosophy, university of Ljubljana, has written extensively on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and film theory. His most recent publications areThe Plague of FantasiesandThe Ticklish Subject.
Book Information
ISBN 9780851707556
Author Slavoj Zizek
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint BFI Publishing
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
About the Author
Slavoj Zizek, senior researcher at the Department of Philosophy, university of Ljubljana, has written extensively on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and film theory. His most recent publications areThe Plague of FantasiesandThe Ticklish Subject.
Book Information
ISBN 9780851707556
Author Slavoj Zizek
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint BFI Publishing
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
