The Art Of The Ridiculous Sublime by Slavoj Žižek
On David Lynch's Lost Highway
A provocative, compact analysis uses Lacanian psychoanalysis and cultural theory to read David Lynch’s film as a site where identity, desire, and guilt are fractured, showing how surreal narrative disruptions, doubling, and violence expose underlying ideological fantasies; the book argues that the film’s oscillation between the ridiculous and the sublime reveals cinema’s capacity to confront the Real while masking social contradictions through aesthetic enjoyment.
- Published
- 2000
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- British
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- English
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