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Rushing traces these epic heroes from Maciste in Cabiria in the early silent era to contemporary transnational figures like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian, and to films such as Zach Snyder's 300. Rushing explores how the very tactile modes of representation cement the genre's ideological grip on the viewer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49686137962769,"sku":"GOR013770490","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000558551313,"sku":"NIN9780253022509","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0253022509.jpg?v=1786107137"},{"product_id":"resisting-arrest-book-robert-a-rushing-9781590512418","title":"Resisting Arrest","description":"\u003ci\u003eA volume in the Cultural Studies Series edited by Samir Dayal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn innovative and entertaining look at genre, popular culture, enjoyment, and psychoanalysis. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDetective fiction, a category that, broadly defined, runs the gamut from Oedipus Rex to The Purloined Letter, continues to draw a range of fans and scholars, and to play a pivotal role in popular entertainment, contemporary literature, and psychoanalytic theory. But how do we derive pleasure from reading about or watching a detective's exploits? Is our enjoyment in the vicarious experience of genius? Or in witnessing the commission of a crime, an equally vicarious experience of violence? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eResisting Arrest\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the detective genre in its many different cultural manifestations, from popular fiction (Christie) to high literature (Eco), from art films (Antonioni) to popular television series (\u003ci\u003eMonk\u003c\/i\u003e). In each case, Rushing finds that detective stories have less to do with fulfilling our hidden desires, as psychoanalytic explanations have traditionally asserted, than with purposively thwarting them. He argues that the genre is in fact constituted principally by the promises on which it fails to deliver, including the vicarious experience of both genius (readers expecting to play Sherlock Holmes are almost always cast as Watson) and antisocial violence, so that our pleasure is based on what Slavoj Zizek has called the endless circulation around the always-missed object. Organized around the key ideas that structure the detective genre (Desire, Repetition, Violence), \u003ci\u003eResisting Arrest\u003c\/i\u003e offers a thoroughly new interpretation that will appeal to scholars interested in questions about genre and cinema studies, popular culture, and psychoanalysis.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51552462635281,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51552463421713,"sku":"CIN1590512413G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53370110378257,"sku":"CIN1590512413VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1590512413.jpg?v=1751341812"},{"product_id":"transmedial-resonance-book-robert-a-rushing-9781531512682","title":"Transmedial Resonance","description":"UNFORGETTABLE CHOICES examines two families affected by the abduction of a two-day-old infant. 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After the kidnapper commits suicide, Farah's sister must deal with the loss of her cherished mother and being introduced to her birth family. These individuals attempt to accept their hard life lessons by contemplating what this world and Heaven are all about. 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