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The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway
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The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway Paperback - 2000

by Slavoj Zizek; Introduction by Marek Wieczorek


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The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime is first of all the detailed reading of David Lynch's The Lost Highway, 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 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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  • Title The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway
  • Author Slavoj Zizek; Introduction by Marek Wieczorek
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 56
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Washington Press, Washington
  • Date June 2000
  • ISBN 9780295979250 / 0295979259
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.03 x 7.05 x 0.24 in (25.48 x 17.91 x 0.61 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00037710
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.437

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2000, Page 183

About the author

Slavoj Zizek, a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana, is the author of Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchock) and In Defense of Lost Causes, among many books. Marek Wieczorek is assistant professor of modern art history at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the author of The Touch of Light: Laser Paintings by Carel Balth.

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