Slawoj Zizek o filmie: Hitchcock, Lynch, Kieslowski i inni
Slavoj Zizek on Film: Hitchcock, Lynch, Kieslowski and Others

Summary/Abstract: Słavoj Zizek, the philosopher and sociologist, deeply influenced by Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory, has long been interested in films. Zizek explains Lacan’s central theses, making references to examples from films, and he looks at films through the prism of psychoanalysis. For Zizek, film is part of pop culture, heavily embroiled in the ideological and economic contexts. Rutkowska presents central theses of Zizek’s film theory and history. Alfred Hitchock’s films have long been fuel for Zizek’s theoretical considerations. He has analysed in detail the course of the story line and construction of characters in order to identify various stages of development of Hitchcock’s artistic work. Zizek is primarily interested in ‘gaze’ and film reception. A work of art is treated as a form of a psychoanalytical discourse. Films by David Lynch are particularly receptive to this kind of interpretation. Next, Zizek is interested in Kieślowski because of relations between reality, the real, the imaginary and Subjectivity.

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