The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway (Occasional Papers (Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities) 1.)
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The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime is first of all the detailed reading of David Lynchs The Lost Highway based on the premises of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Lynchs 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 Schindlers List and Life Is Beautiful in the process of examining topics as diverseand as closely linkedas ethics politics and cyberspace.
