The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington

Mar 4, 2011 - He discerns that tendency in Žižek's Lacanian reading of Lost Highway (David Lynch 1997), for example, an interpretation that construes the opposed 'poles' of the film –the aseptic real life world of Fred on the one hand, and, following .. 2000, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (authored with Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau), London: Verso. So, since the present essay attempts a Lacanian reading of David Lynch's 'Lost Highway,' it may be useful to start with a reference to 'post-theory,' the recent cognitivist orientation of cinema studies that establishes its identity by a thorough rejection of Lacanian studies.”. €The Crystals of Time” in Cinema 2: The Time – Image, Trans, Hugh Tomlinson & Robert Galeta. Dec 4, 2012 - The Circus (Charlie Chaplin, 1928) Chaplin's oft-neglected gem boasts two of the funniest scenes in his formidably funny oeuvre: Chaplin on a tightrope besieged by a congress of monkeys and Chaplin in a sleeping lion's cage trying to quiet a barking dog. Oct 16, 2011 - In “The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime,” Zizek solemnly announces that:”Lenin liked to point out that one could often get crucial insights into one's enemies from the perceptions of intelligent enemies. Aug 26, 2013 - 2000, The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway, Washington: University of Washington Press. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) I watched Lynch's bold and honest attempt to grapple with human sexuality on the day the film opened. Peaks TV series, as two sides of the same coin, as 'twinned' modes of connoting structurally equivalent manifestations of relating to the unconscious that become vehicles for Lynch's 'art of the ridiculous sublime' (Žižek 2000, 22-23). May 26, 2012 - Deleuze, Gillies. The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway.