Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Lacan But Were Afraid To Ask Hitchcock (2002)

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) - Slavoj Zizek

Author: Slavoj Zizek
File type: pdf
Publisher: Verso
Year: 1992
Language: English
ISBN: 0860913945,9780860913948
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Author: Slavoj Zizek
File type: pdf
Size: 11 mb
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Pages: 287
Id: 576261
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Bibtex: "Slavoj Zizek",
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)"


Hitchcock is placed on the analyst's couch in this volume of case-studies, as its contributors sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, from "Rear Window" to "Psycho" as an exemplar of "postmortem" defamiliarization. Starting from the premise that "everything has meaning" the films' ostensible narrative content and formal procedures are analyzed to reveal a proliferation of ideological and psychical mechanisms at work. But Hitchcock, here, is also a bait to lure the reader into "serious" Marxist and Lacanian considerations on the construction of meaning. The contributors are: Fredric Jameson, Pascal bonitzer, Miran Bozovic, Michel Chion, Mladen Dolar, Stojan Pelko, Renata Salecl, Alenka Zupancic and Slavoj Zizek.