Žižek, S{{BBSZ}} =====Book Description=====[[Image:ArtRidiculous. (2000) jpg|200px|thumb|Book Cover]]The Art of the Ridiculous [[Sublime: On ]] is first of all the detailed [[reading]] of [[David Lynch]]'s The LostHighway, Seattle: Walter Chapin Simpson Center for based on the premises of [[Lacanian]] [[psychoanalysis]]. Lynch's unique [[universe]] of the "ridiculous sublime" is [[interpreted]] as a simultaneous playful staging and [[traversing]] of the Humanitiesfundamental [[ideological]] [[fantasies]] that sustain our late [[capitalist]] [[society]].Using some A [[master]] of reversals, [[Zizek]] invites the material from The Fragile Absolutereader to reexamine with him easy assumptions, received opinion, and current critical trends, as well as pose tough questions [[about]] the ways in which we [[understand]] our [[world]] and [[culture]]. He offers provocative readings of [[Casablanca]], Schindler's [[List]], while buildingon previous analyses and [[Life]] Is Beautiful in The Metastases the [[process]] of Enjoyment examining topics as diverse-and elsewhereas closely linked-as [[ethics]], this[[politics]], and [[cyberspace]].small book/essay is an examination =====Product Details====={| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"|width="100%"| * [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime|The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's film Lost Highway(Occasional Papers (Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities), 1.)]]'''''.Amid Seattle: Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the many satisfying incidental discussionsHumanities, Žižek's centralcontention is that Lost Highway effectively functions as a form [[University]] of meta-commentary on the opposition between the classic and postmodernnoir femme fataleWashington Press.June 2000, Paperback, 48 pages, [[Category:WorksLanguage]]: [[Category:BooksEnglish]], ISBN: 0295979259. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0295979259/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [Categoryhttp:Žižek//www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0295979259/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0295979259/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0295979259/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [Categoryhttp:Psychoanalysis]//www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0295979259/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>|} {{CBBSZ}}
