Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) by Slavoj Zizek

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) by Slavoj Zizek

The contributors bring to bear an unrivaled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, analyzing movies such as Rear Window and Psycho. Starting from the premise that 'everything has meaning,' the authors examine the films' ostensible narrative content and formal procedures to discover a rich proliferation of hidden ideological and psychic mechanisms. But Hitchcock is also a bait to lure the reader into a serious Marxist and Lacanian exploration of the construction of meaning. An extraordinary landmark in Hitchcock studies, this new edition features a brand-new essay by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, presenter of Sophie Fiennes's three-part documentary The Pervert's Guide to Cinema.

Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.

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ISBN 13	9781844676217
ISBN 10	1844676218
Title	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)
Author	Slavoj Zizek
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Verso Books
Year published	2010-08-03
Number of pages	300
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