Slavoj Zizek Additional Author mixed material bibliography University of Washington Press 2000

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56 <i>The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime</i> is first of all the detailed reading of David Lynch's <i>The Lost Highway</i>, 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 <i>Casablanca, Schindler's List</i>, and <i>Life Is Beautiful</i> in the process of examining topics as diverse?and as closely linked?as ethics, politics, and cyberspace. 295979259 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 791.4372 ZIZE 3360 C2O library & collabtive (Literature & Literary Theory) 3268 2015-01-02 09:50:52 2015-01-02 09:50:52 machine generated