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The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime - On David Lynch's 'Lost Highway'

English · Paperback

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Informationen zum Autor Slavoj Zizek. Introduction by Marek Wieczorek Klappentext The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime is first of all the detailed reading of David Lynch¿s The Lost Highway, 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 fundamental ideological fantasies that sustain our late capitalist society.A master of reversals, Zizek invites the reader 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, and Life Is Beautiful in the process of examining topics as diverse¿and as closely linked¿as ethics, politics, and cyberspace. Zusammenfassung Invites the reader to re-examine the assumptions! received opinion! and critical trends! as well as poses questions about the ways in which we understand our world and culture. This title offers readings of "Casablanca"! "Schindler's List"! and "Life Is Beautiful" in the process of examining topics such as ethics! politics! and cyberspace.

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Authors Slavoj Zizek
Publisher University Of Washington Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 01.05.2000
 
EAN 9780295979250
ISBN 978-0-295-97925-0
No. of pages 56
Dimensions 178 mm x 255 mm x 10 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art
Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

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