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Žižek, S=====Book Description=====[[Image:FrightTears.jpg|200px|thumb|Book Cover]][[Film]] [[theory]] is in crisis. (2001) The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieslowski betweenTheory dominant [[psychoanalytical]] paradigm is contested by cognitive models and Postpost-theory, London and Bloomington: British Film Instituteand Indiana University Press.This book In the background is an intervention a wider crisis in [[cultural]] studies, particularly as regards the on-going debate in [[public]] [[role]] of the field ofpolitically engaged [[intellectual]].film studies which is split between Theory (anything loosely affiliatedwith structuralism and postIn this major new study Slavoj [[Zizek]] challenges both cognitivist-structuralism) and Post-Theory (anythingloosely affiliated with a dislike historicist accounts of structuralism [[cinema]] and post-structuralism)conventional [[film theory]].The main cause of antipathy for Arguing that the Post-Theorists was the dominance[[reading]] of certain Lacanian concepts [[Lacan]] operative in the field of film studies. Žižek's argu-ment here, via a reading of Krzysztof Kieslowski70s and 's films80s was particularly reductive, Zizek asserts that there is that theseLacanian concepts were employed piecemeal without either due regardfor their philosophical matrix or for their implications"[[another]] Lacan," in reference to whom film theory, cultural studies, and critical [[thought]] as such can be transformed and revitalized. This book findsŽižek at his most robust He supports and methodical, as he debunks expands this argument with an extensive reading of the lamentableconclusions [[work]] of Post-Theory[[Kieslowski]] and, as well as at his most patientin a substantial appendix, as he explainswith a [[discussion]] of the workings [[relationship]] between [[Christianity]], Gothicism and value the "progressive digitalisation of Lacan's insightsour [[life]]-[[world]]."
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