The art of the ridiculous sublime : on David Lynch's Lost highway/ Slavoj Žižek
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The art of the ridiculous sublime : on David Lynch's Lost highway/ Slavoj Žižek
（Occasional papers / Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, 1）
The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, 2000
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In the Pacific Northwest, the river of dominance is the Columbia, and in ways both profound and mundane its history is the history of the region. In Great River of the West historians and anthropologists consider a range of topics about the river, from Indian rock art, Chinook Jargon, and ethnobotany on the Columbia to literary and family history, the creation of an engineered river, and the inherent mythic power of place.
Since first contact between Euro-Americans and Native peoples during the late 18th century, the river's history has been characterized by dramatic demographic, social, and economic changes. The remarkable set of essays in Great River of the West investigate these changes by highlighting important episodes in the history of the river. Readers meet mariners who challenge the Columbia River bar, a family torn by insanity, Native people who preserve fishing traditions, and dam-builders who radically change the Columbia.
Table of Contents
A Resurgent Columbia River: An Introduction
What Ever Happened to the First Peoples of the Columbia?
"Dr. McKay's Chinook Address May 11 1892": A Commemoration in Chinook Jargon of the First Columbia River Centennial
Riverplaces as Sacred Geography: The Pictographs and Petroglyphs of the Mid-Columbia River
On the Columbia: The Ruling Presence of This Place
"This perilous situation betwee hope and dispair": Meetings along the Great River of the West
"They have no father, and they will not mind me": Families and the River
Changing Cultural Inventions of the Columbia
What Has Happened to the Columbia? A Great River's Fate in the 20th Century
Contributors
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The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime is first of all the detailed reading of David Lynch's The Lost Highway, based on the premises of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Lynch's unique universe of the "ridiculous sublime" is interpreted as a simultaneous playful staging and traversing of the fundamental ideological fantasies that sustain our late capitalist society.
A master of reversals, Zizek invites the reader to reexamine with him easy assumptions, received opinion, and current critical trends, as well as pose tough questions about the ways in which we understand our world and culture. He offers provocative readings of Casablanca, Schindler's List, and Life Is Beautiful in the process of examining topics as diverse-and as closely linked-as ethics, politics, and cyberspace.
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