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9780860913948 English 0860913945 A modernist work of art is by definition incomprehensible; it functions as a shock, as the irruption of a trauma which undermines the complacency of our daily routine and resists being integrated. What postmodernism does, however, is the very opposite: it objects "par excellence" are products with mass appeal; the aim of the postmodernist treatment is to estrange their initial homeliness: you think what you see is a simple melodrama your granny would have no difficulty in following? Yet without taking into account the difference between symptom and "sinthom"/the structure of the Borromean knot/the fact that Woman is one of the Names-of-the-Father ... youve totally missed the point if there is an author whose name epitomises this interpretive pleasure of estranging the most banal content, it is Alfred Hitchcock (and--useless to deny it--this book partakes unrestrainedly in this madness). Hitchcock is placed on the analysts couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies, as its contributors bring to bear an unrivalled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, from "Rear Window" to "Psycho," as an exemplar of postmodern defamiliarization. Starting from the premise that everything has meaning, the films ostensible narrative content and formal procedures are analysed to reveal a rich proliferation of ideological and psychical mechanisms at work. But Hitchcock is here to lure the reader into serious Marxist and Lacanian considerations on the construction of meaning. Timely, provocative and original, this is sure to become a landmark of Hitchcock studies. Contributors: Frederic Jameson, Pascal Bonitzer, Miran Bozovic, Michel Chion, Mlladen Dolar, Stojan Pellko, Renata Salecl, Alenka Zupancic and Slavoj Zizek., Hitchcock is placed on the analyst's couch in this volume of case-studies, as its contributors sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, from Rear Window to Psycho as an exemplar of postmortem defamiliarization. Starting from the premise that everything has meaning the films' ostensible narrative content and formal procedures are analyzed to reveal a proliferation of ideological and psychical mechanisms at work. But Hitchcock, here, is also a bait to lure the reader into serious Marxist and Lacanian considerations on the construction of meaning.
9780860913948 English 0860913945 A modernist work of art is by definition incomprehensible; it functions as a shock, as the irruption of a trauma which undermines the complacency of our daily routine and resists being integrated. What postmodernism does, however, is the very opposite: it objects "par excellence" are products with mass appeal; the aim of the postmodernist treatment is to estrange their initial homeliness: you think what you see is a simple melodrama your granny would have no difficulty in following? Yet without taking into account the difference between symptom and "sinthom"/the structure of the Borromean knot/the fact that Woman is one of the Names-of-the-Father ... youve totally missed the point if there is an author whose name epitomises this interpretive pleasure of estranging the most banal content, it is Alfred Hitchcock (and--useless to deny it--this book partakes unrestrainedly in this madness). Hitchcock is placed on the analysts couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies, as its contributors bring to bear an unrivalled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, from "Rear Window" to "Psycho," as an exemplar of postmodern defamiliarization. Starting from the premise that everything has meaning, the films ostensible narrative content and formal procedures are analysed to reveal a rich proliferation of ideological and psychical mechanisms at work. But Hitchcock is here to lure the reader into serious Marxist and Lacanian considerations on the construction of meaning. Timely, provocative and original, this is sure to become a landmark of Hitchcock studies. Contributors: Frederic Jameson, Pascal Bonitzer, Miran Bozovic, Michel Chion, Mlladen Dolar, Stojan Pellko, Renata Salecl, Alenka Zupancic and Slavoj Zizek., Hitchcock is placed on the analyst's couch in this volume of case-studies, as its contributors sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, from Rear Window to Psycho as an exemplar of postmortem defamiliarization. Starting from the premise that everything has meaning the films' ostensible narrative content and formal procedures are analyzed to reveal a proliferation of ideological and psychical mechanisms at work. But Hitchcock, here, is also a bait to lure the reader into serious Marxist and Lacanian considerations on the construction of meaning.