Slavoj Žižek on Film: Hitchcock, Lynch, Kieślowski and Others
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Slavoj Žižek, the philosopher and sociologist, deeply influenced by Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory, has long been interested in films. Žižek explains Lacan’s central theses, making references to examples from films, and he looks at films through the prism of psychoanalysis. For Žižek, film is part of pop culture, heavily embroiled in the ideological and economic contexts. Rutkowska presents central theses of Žižek’s film theory and history. Alfred Hitchock’s films have long been fuel for Žižek’s theoretical considerations. He has analysed in detail the course of the story line and construction of characters in order to identify various stages of development of Hitchcock’s artistic work. Žižek is primarily interested in “gaze” and film reception. A work of art is treated as a form of a psychoanalytical discourse. Films by David Lynch are particularly receptive to this kind of interpretation. Next, Žižek is interested in Kieślowski because of relations between reality, the real, the imaginary and subjectivity.
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Slavoj Žižek, psychoanalysis, HitchcockReferences
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Teresa Rutkowskakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Editor-in-chief of Kwartalnik Filmowy; translator. She is employed at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Film and Audiovisual Arts at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). She publishes articles in Kwartalnik Filmowy and book reviews in the monthly magazine Nowe Książki. Her areas of interest include the film narration and the relationship between image and word in film.
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