Apropos of Nothing - Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Coen Brothers (Hardcover)

The Coen Brothers films are rife with figures of absence. In "The Big Lebowski," the Dude does nothing. He is put on the trail of a kidnapping that never happened, and solves the crime when he realizes that he paid the ransom with a ringer for a ringer. "The Hudsucker Proxy" features a dupe who draws zeros throughout the film, enthusiastically proclaiming, You know, for the kids "Barton Fink" is a film that revolves around the absence of a film. In "Apropos of Nothing," Clark Buckner appeals to these and other figures of the void in the Coen Brothers films in order to articulate the close proximity and ultimate opposition between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Derridean deconstruction. In the process, he situates both theories in relationship to Heidegger s existential phenomenology, and undertakes a comparative analysis of the negativity in death, language, drive, anxiety, visual perception, paternity, and the unconscious. Formulating one of the most theoretically rigorous readings of the Coens oeuvre to date, Buckner also offers a readable overview of some central debates in late twentieth-century continental philosophy."

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Release date:	November 2014
First published:	November 2014
Authors:	Clark Buckner
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	270
ISBN-13:	978-1-4384-5255-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Postmodernism > Structuralism, deconstruction, post-structuralism Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism Promotions
LSN:	1-4384-5255-1
Barcode:	9781438452555

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