Overview : Since the release of Do the Right Thing in 1989, Spike Lee has established himself as a cinematic icon. Lee's mostly independent films garn... Read More
Overview :While understanding the psychological structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to understanding our current political cri... Read More
Overview :The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much... Read More
Overview :From Memento and Insomnia to the Batman films, The Prestige, and Inception, lies play a central role in every Christopher Nolan film. Charac... Read More
Overview :The difficulty of Jacques Lacan's thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide ... Read More
Overview :Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that th... Read More
Overview :In Out of Time, Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in cinema that arose in response to the digit... Read More
Overview :Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders-but not because of wh... Read More
Overview :The Film Theory in Practice Series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpre... Read More
Overview :The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation? We often think ... Read More
Overview :Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre. He studies Lynch's talent f... Read More
Overview :Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscov... Read More
Overview :Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the pol... Read More
Overview :Exploring the emergence of a societal imperative to enjoy ourselves, Todd McGowan builds on the work of such theorists as Jacques Lacan, Sla... Read More
Overview :This unique volume collects a series of essays that link new developments in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and recent trends in contemporar... Read More
Overview :The Real Gaze develops a new theory of the cinema by rethinking the concept of the gaze, which has long been central in film theory. Histori... Read More
Overview :Only a Joke Can Save Us presents an innovative and comprehensive theory of comedy. Using a wealth of examples from high and popular culture ... Read More
Overview :F.E.A.R. is the definitive book about taking responsibility and getting your life on track. Ever wonder how and why other motherfuckers get ... Read More