David Lynch: The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime by Slavoj Zizek (.PDF)
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The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch’s Lost Highway by Slavoj Zizek
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Overview: The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime is first of all the detailed reading of David Lynch’s 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.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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