Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan . . . But

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan . . . But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock
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â€˜A modernist work of art is by definition â€˜incomprehensibleâ€™; it functions as a shock, as the irruption of a trauma which undermines the complacency of our daily routine and resists being integrated. What postmodernism does, however, is the very opposite: it objects par excellence are products with mass appeal; the aim of the postmodernist treatment is to estrange their initial homeliness: â€˜you think what you see is a simple melodrama your granny would have no difficulty in following? Yet without taking into account the difference between symptom and sinthom/the structure of the Borromean knot/the fact that Woman is one of the Names-of-the-Father ... youâ€™ve totally missed the point!â€™ if there is an author whose name epitomises this interpretive pleasure of â€˜estrangingâ€™ the most banal content, it is Alfred Hitchcock (andâ€”useless to deny itâ€”this book partakes unrestrainedly in this madness).â€™

Hitchcock is placed on the analystâ€™s couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies, as its contributors bring to bear an unrivalled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, from Rear Window to Psycho, as an exemplar of â€˜postmodernâ€™ defamiliarization. Starting from the premise that â€˜everything has meaningâ€™, the filmsâ€™ ostensible narrative content and formal procedures are analysed to reveal a rich proliferation of ideological and psychical mechanisms at work. But Hitchcock is here to lure the reader into â€˜seriousâ€™ Marxist and Lacanian considerations on the construction of meaning. Timely, provocative and original, this is sure to become a landmark of Hitchcock studies.

Contributors: Frederic Jameson, Pascal Bonitzer, Miran Bozovic, Michel Chion, Mlladen Dolar, Stojan Pellko, Renata Salecl, Alenka Zupancic and Slavoj ÂŽiÂžek.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1992-11-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780860915928

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	1992-11-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780860915928

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan . . . But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock

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