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=====Book Description=====
[[Image:Everything.You.Always.Wanted.To.Know.About.Lacan.jpg|300px|right]]
'A modernist [[work]] of art is by definition 'incomprehensible'; it functions as a shock, as the irruption of a [[trauma]] which undermines the complacency of our daily routine and resists [[being]] integrated. What [[postmodernism]] does, however, is the very opposite: it [[objects]] par excellence are products with mass appeal; the aim of the postmodernist [[treatment]] is to estrange their initial homeliness: 'you [[think]] what you see is a simple melodrama your granny would have no difficulty in following? Yet without taking into account the [[difference]] between [[symptom]] and ''sinthom''/the [[structure]] of the Borromean [[knot]]/the fact that [[Woman]] is one of the Names-of-the-[[Father]] ... you've totally missed the point!' if there is an [[author]] whose [[name]] epitomises this interpretive [[pleasure]] of 'estranging' the most banal [[content]], it is Alfred [[Hitchcock]] (and - useless to deny it - this book partakes unrestrainedly in this [[madness]]).'
Hitchcock is placed on the [[analyst]]'s couch in this extraordinary volume of [[case]] studies, as its contributors bring to bear an unrivalled enthusiasm and [[theoretical]] sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, from [[Rear Window]] to [[Psycho]], as an exemplar of '[[postmodern]]' defamiliarization. Starting from the premise that 'everything has [[meaning]]', the [[films]]' ostensible [[narrative]] content and [[formal]] procedures are analysed to reveal a rich proliferation of [[ideological]] and [[psychic]] mechanisms at work. But Hitchcock is here also a bait to [[lure]] the reader into 'serious' [[Marxist]] and [[Lacanian]] considerations on the [[construction]] of meaning. Timely, provocative and original, this is sure to become a landmark of Hitchcock studies.
