The Fright of Real Tears (Hardcover)

Slavoj Zizek
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In this study the author challenges both cognitivist-historicist accounts of cinema and conventional film-theory, arguing that the reading of Lacan operative in the 1970s and 1980s was particularly reductive..

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This work is the elaborated version of a series of lectures Zizek gave to the BFI in 1998.