The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost HighwayWalter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities/University of Washington, 2000 - Lost highway (Motion picture) - 48 pages 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. |
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BY SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK page | 3 |
Fantasy Decomposed page | 13 |
Canned Hatred page | 23 |
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