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NEW EDITION:

 

EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT LACAN (BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK HITCHCOCK)

 

Edited by SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

 

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Radical philosopher, polymath, film star, cult icon, and author of over 30 books: Slavoj Žižek is one of the most controversial and leading contemporary public intellectuals, simultaneously acclaimed as the ‘Elvis of cultural theory’ and denounced as ‘the most dangerous philosopher in the West’. He regularly features on lists of the top public intellectuals and remains a thorn in the side of both the right and the liberal left.

Hitchcock gets onto the analyst’s couch in this extraordinary volume of cinematographic case studies. The wide range of contributors bring to bear an unrivalled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep to the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, analyzing movies such as REAR WINDOW and PSYCHO.

 

An extraordinary landmark in Hitchcock studies, this new edition features a brand-new essay by Slavoj Žižek, psychoanalyst, philosopher and presenter of THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA. The contributors include Fredric Jameson, the leading American literary critic and Marxist political theorist.

 

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CONTENTS

 

 

FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Alfred Hitchcock, or, The Form and its Historical Mediation – Slavoj Žižek

 

PART ONE – The Universal: Themes

 

  1. Hitchcockian Suspense – Pascal Bonitzer
  2. Hitchcock’s Objects – Mladen Dolar
  3. Spatial Systems in NORTH BY NORTHWEST – Fredric Jameson
  4. A Perfect Place to Die: Theatre in Hitchcock’s Films – Alenka Zupaničič
  5. PUNCTUM CAECUM, or, Of Insight and Blindness – Stojan Pelko

 

PART TWO – The Particular: Films

 

  1. Hitchcockian SINTHOMS - Slavoj Žižek
  2. The Spectator Who Knew Too Much – Mladen Dolar
  3. The Cipher of Destiny – Michel Chion
  4. A Father Who Is Not Quite Dead – Mladen Dolar
  5. NOTORIOUS – Pascal Bonitzer
  6. The Fourth Side – Michel Chion
  7. The Man Behind His Own Retina – Miran Božovič
  8. The Skin and the Straw – Pascal Bonitzer
  9. The Right Man and the Wrong Woman – Renata Salecl
  10. The Impossible Embodiment – Michel Chion

 

PART THREE – The Individual – Hitchcock’s Universe

 

      ‘In His Bold Gaze My Ruin Is Writ Large’ - Slavoj Žižek

     

      What’s wrong with THE WRONG MAN? – The Hitchcockian Allegory – From I to A – PSYCHO’S Moebius band – Aristophanes reversed – ‘A triumph of the gaze over the eye’ – The narrative closure and its vortex – The gaze of the Thing – ‘Subjective destitution – The collapse of intersubjectivity

 

 

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Praise for SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

 

“The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades.” Terry Eagleton

 

“The most dangerous philosopher in the West.” Adam Kirsch, NEW REPUBLIC

 

"Slavoj Žižek has put the Soul back into philosophy." TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

 

“He is the closest thing philosophy currently has to a superstar.” Hermione Eyre, INDEPENDENT

 

“Žižek is the undisputed spritz master of international cinema studies.” VILLAGE VOICE

 

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SLAVOJ ZIZEK is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His other books from Verso include LIVING IN THE END TIMES, FIRST AS TRAGEDY, THEN AS FARCE, IN DEFENSE OF LOST CAUSES, THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY, WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL, THE PLAGUE OF FANTASIES and DID SOMEBODY SAY TOTALITARIANISM? He has also appeared in the films ZIZEK! and THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA.

 

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ISBN: 978 1 84467 621 7 / $26.95 / £16.99 / CAN$33.50 / Paperback / 304 pages

 

ISBN: 978-1-84467-622-4 / $100.00 / £55.00 / $125.00 / Hardback / 304 pages

 

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