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  • The Miracle of Analogy

    or The History of Photography, Part 1

    by Kaja Silverman ...
    The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor copy, as conventional studies would have it, the photographic image is an analogy. This principle ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Subject of Semiotics

    by Kaja Silverman ...
    This provocative book undertakes a new and challenging reading of recent semiotic and structuralist theory, arguing that films, novels, and poems cannot be studied in isolation from their viewers and readers. ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Flesh of My Flesh

    by Kaja Silverman ...
    What is a woman? What is a man? How do they—and how should they—relate to each other? Does our yearning for "wholeness" refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we feel so estranged from it? For centuries now, art and literature have increasingly valorized uniqueness and self-sufficiency. The theoreticians who loom so large within contemporary thought also privilege ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Threshold of the Visible World

    by Kaja Silverman ...
    In The Threshold of the Visible World Kaja Silverman advances a revolutionary new political aesthetic, exploring the possibilities for looking beyond the restrictive mandates of the self, and the normative aspects of the cultural image-repertoire. She provides a detailed account of the social and psychic forces which constrain us to look and identify in normative ways, and the violence which that ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Subject of Semiotics

    by Kaja Silverman ...
    This provocative book undertakes a new and challenging reading of recent semiotic and structuralist theory, arguing that films, novels, and poems cannot be studied in isolation from their viewers and readers. ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Speaking about Godard

    by Kaja Silverman, Harun Farocki ...
    A leading film theorist and a filmmaker discuss the lasting contributions of the most prominent living filmmaker, Jean Luc-GodardProbably the most prominent living filmmaker, and one of the foremost directors of the postwar era, Jean Luc-Godard has received astonishingly little critical attention in the United States. With Speaking about Godard, leading film theorist Kaja Silverman and filmmaker ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Male Subjectivity at the Margins

    by Kaja Silverman ...
    Through the examination of a range of literary and cinematic texts, from William Wyler's classic The Best Years of Our Lives to the novels of Henry James, Silverman offers a bold new look at masculinities which deviate from the social norm. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Narratology

    Introduction to the Theory of Narrative

    by Mieke Bal ...
    Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills years of study of the ways in which we understand both literary and non-literary works. In this ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Jacques Lacan

    by Sean Homer ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacanian theory has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as literature, film, gender and social theory. This book covers the full extent of Lacan's career and provides an accessible guide to Lacanian concepts ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Lacan

    Edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain ... Read more

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  • Enjoy Your Symptom!

    Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out

    by Slavoj Žižek ...
    Slavoj Zizek, dubbed by the Village Voice "the giant of Ljubljana," is back with a new edition of his seriously entertaining book on film, psychoanalysis (and life). His inimitable blend of philosophical and social theory, Lacanian analysis, and outrageous humor are made to show how Hollywood movies can explain psychoanalysis-and vice versa using films such as Marnie and The Man Who Knew Too**Much ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Visuality

    Levinas and the Contemporary Gaze

    by Hagi Kenaan ...
    Series series International Library of Contemporary Philosophy
    Our world is saturated with images. Overwhelmed by this proliferation of visual stimuli, our gaze becomes increasingly bored and distracted. Do we ever really read and engage with images? Can they ever provide the sense of meaningfulness we crave? French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas confronted and subverted these questions. A superficial reading of his works might indicate an ambivalence if ... Read more

    $28.39 USD