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• On Belief
  ...ew religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book. ...city of religious belief to critical light, Zizek draws on psychoanalysis, film and philosophy to reveal in startling fashion that nothing could be worse f
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• Gilles Deleuze
  ...Deleuze wrote many influential works on [[philosophy]], [[literature]], [[film]], and fine art. ...s philosophy from a [[Lacanian]] perspective. Žižek values Deleuze as a critic of [[psychoanalysis]], a [[figure]] supplying theoretical underpinnings for
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...oods without the [[alienating]] market machinery not the true point of the film occluded by the displacement of the official focus of the narrative on the ...ly happened there… Apart from displaying a hypocritical [[paranoia]], my critic was doubly wrong: first, the holocaust revisionists (to my knowledge) NEVER
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• With or Without Passion
  ...h would allow her to organize her [[desire]]: when, in the middle of the [[film]], she goes to a video cabin and watches a hardcore porn, she does it in or ...o believe." The only believer in the phallic symbols is in both cases the critic himself, who believes through the other, i.e., who "projects" (or, rather,
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• Opera
  ...as a dark plotter, both in the <i>Nibelungenlied</i> and in Fritz Lang's [[film]], he emerges as the ultimate hero of the entire work and is redeemed at th ...ssions, the first impression, of course, is that of a scene from a Fellini film: aseptic old men in dark dresses silently roaming around, accompanied by la
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...mised authentic solidarity for audiences across Europe. In one memorable [[film]] about the Civil War, a [[mother]] with a young son is exposed as a counte
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• Laugh Yourself to Death
  ...]] which condenses all that is [[false]] in [[Spielberg]], although many a critic praised it as the strongest scene in <i>Schindler's [[List]]</i>, containin ...points will at the end see an American tank arriving. The miracle of the [[film]] is that the father succeeds in maintaining the [[appearance]] to the end:
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• Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences
  ...ing of a dazzling inquiry into the realms of radical politics, philosophy, film (Hitchcock, ''Fight Club''), and psychoanalysis. Of ''Organs without Bodies
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  An American critic famously described [[Slavoj Zizek]] as "the giant of [[Ljubljana]]" and the ...as for [[being]] highly accessible. [[Britain]]'s best-selling [[cultural critic]], Terry Eagleton, has written of Zizek's "enviable knack of making Kant ..
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...rivileged examples in Zizek's work: the [[figure]] of the 'shark' in the [[film]] <i>Jaws</i> and the 'Jew' in [[anti-Semitism]]. In both cases, we can see ...which play random snatches of conversation. It is not until the end of the film that we realize that what we took to be mere background noise there holds t
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)</i> (1992). It includes essays by the French film critic Pascal Bonitzer on Hitchcockian suspense, Zupancic on the way in which 'the ..., from the masculine construction of woman in mediaeval courtly poetry and film noir to the radical 'feminism' (in a typically perverse and counter-intuiti
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• Christian Metz
  ...application of [[Ferdinand de Saussure]]'s theories of [[Semiotics]] to [[film]]. ...miroir.29|mirror theory]] to the [[cinema]], proposing that the [[reason]] film is popular as an art [[form]] lies in its ability to both be an imperfect [
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...tor]]; or, [[Max Weber]] as Storyteller'-by the North American [[Marxist]] critic Fredric [[Jameson]] (1934-). In the essay, Jameson [[analyses]] the critiqu ...notes when commenting upon the ambiguous status of the replicants in the [[film]] [[Blade Runner]]:
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• Traditional Freudian Criticism
  ...rly Freudian literary critics (Laurence Olivier consulted him for the 1950 film version), another of Freud’s first-generation followers covered more lite ...wthorne with a pitiless symbolic anatomy of an adolescent mind" (134). The critic judges the author’s artistry to be ultimately hobbled by the obsessive po
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• Talk:Bertolt Brecht
  ...[[World War I]]. After the war he moved to [[Berlin]] where an influential critic, [[Herbert Ihering]], brought him to the attention of a public longing for ...uhle Wampe]] (1932), which was directed by [[Slatan Dudow]]. This striking film is notable for its subversive humour, outstanding [[cinematography]] by [[G
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• Talk:The Freudian Thing
  ...the romantic novel ("The adversary," "[The] imaginary passion") or silent film captions ("Resistance to the resisters"). While the titles appear loosely t ...rong, the beautiful soul "does not admit the same in regard to himself; as critic he is not subject to criticism" (pp. 226-227). In this way the self-centere
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• Talk:Structuralism
  ...ism Louis Althusser, the writers for the periodical Tel Quel, the literary critic Roland Barthes, and the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. ...] and myth studied in claude lévi-strauss’s "structural anthropology"), film, social formations (including gender and class relations), and wider areas
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• Jacques Lacan:Links
  Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst, [[philosopher]], and critic of http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy/files/speck.html
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• Doug Henwood Interviews Slavoj Zizek
  ...tudents of [[film]] to the review of "Lost Highway" on www.mrcranky.com, a critic with far more [[sense]] than the gaseous Zizek: ...brain - twist it into a confused mass. Two stories occupy each half of the film. First there's Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) having trouble with his wife, Re
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• Organs Without Bodies - Deleuze And Consequences
  ...ing of a dazzling inquiry into the realms of radical politics, philosophy, film and psychoanalysis. In this deliciously polemical work, Zizek shows Deleuze
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