Laurence Simmons: ¿i¿ek through Hitchcock, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Maverick Slovenian cultural theorist, philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj i ek has made his name elaborating the complexities of psychoanalytic and Marxist theory through the exotic use of examples from film and popular culture. But what if we were to take i ek s pretensions to cinephilia and film criticism seriously? In this book, adopting i ek s own tactic of counterintuitive observation, we shall read the corpus of Alfred Hitchcock s films ( one of the great achievements of Western civilization ) and i ek s idiosyncratic citation of them in order to arrive at a position where we can identify the core commitments that inform i ek s own work. From the practice of Hitchcock we shall (hopefully) arrive at a theory of i ek (just as i ek in his collection Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) (Verso, 1992) arrives at a theory of Lacan from the practice of Hitchcock). To achieve this goal each chapter looks at a specific film by Hitchcock and explores a specific key concept crucial to the elaboration and core of i ek s ideas.