Everything you always wanted to know about Lacan (but were afraid to ask Hitchcock)

By Various

Subjects: Hitchcock, alfred, 1899-1980, Criticism and interpretation, Psychoanalysis and motion pictures, film criticism, In library. Textual criticism, Lacan, jacques, 1901-1981

Description: From the Amazon website blurb: "The contributors bring to bear an unrivaled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, analyzing movies such as Rear Window and Psycho. Starting from the premise that ‘everything has meaning,’ the authors examine the films’ ostensible narrative content and formal procedures to discover a rich proliferation of hidden ideological and psychic mechanisms. But Hitchcock is also a bait to lure the reader into a serious Marxist and Lacanian exploration of the construction of meaning."