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=====Book Description=====
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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]]."
Žižek, S=====Product Details====={| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2. (2001) 0em; padding-left:10px;"|width="100%"| [[The Fright of Real Tears|The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieslowski betweenTheory and Post-theory]], London and Bloomington: British Film Instituteand Indiana [[University ]] Press, 2001.This book is an intervention in the onHardcover, 240 pages, [[Language]]: [[English]], ISBN: 0851707556. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0851707556/nosubject-going debate in the field offilm studies which is split between Theory (anything loosely affiliatedwith structuralism and post20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0851707556/nosub07-structuralism) and Post20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0851707556/nosub-Theory (anythingloosely affiliated with a dislike of structuralism and post21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0851707556/nosubjencyofl-structuralism)21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.The main cause of antipathy for the Postfr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0851707556/nosub04-Theorists was the dominanceof certain Lacanian concepts in the field of film studies21/ Amazon. Žižek's argu-ment here, via a reading of Krzysztof Kieslowski's films, is that theseLacanian concepts were employed piecemeal without either due regardfor their philosophical matrix or for their implicationsfr]. This book finds</small> Žižek at his most robust and methodical, as he debunks the lamentable|}conclusions of Post-Theory, as well as at his most patient, as he explainsthe workings and value of Lacan's insights.{{CBBSZ}}
