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[[Film ]] [[theory ]] is in crisis. The dominant [[psychoanalytical ]] paradigm is contested by cognitive models and post-theory. In the background is a wider crisis in [[cultural ]] studies, particularly as regards the [[public ]] [[role ]] of the politically engaged [[intellectual]].In this major new study Slavoj [[Zizek ]] challenges both cognitivist-historicist accounts of [[cinema ]] and conventional [[film theory]]. Arguing that the [[reading ]] of [[Lacan ]] operative in the '70s and '80s was particularly reductive, Zizek 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 and expands this argument with an extensive reading of the [[work ]] of [[Kieslowski ]] and, in a substantial appendix, with a [[discussion ]] of the [[relationship ]] between [[Christianity]], Gothicism and the "progressive digitalisation of our [[life]]-[[world]]."

|width="100%"| [[The Fright of Real Tears|The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieslowski between Theory and Post-theory]], Bloomington: Indiana [[University ]] Press, 2001. Hardcover, 240 pages, [[Language]]: [[English]], ISBN: 0851707556. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0851707556/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0851707556/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0851707556/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0851707556/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0851707556/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>