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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824017403321

Autore

Buckner Clark <1968->

Titolo

Apropos of nothing : deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and the Coen Brothers / / Clark Buckner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4384-5256-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

SUNY Series, Insinuations : Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

Disciplina

791.4302/330922

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Apropos of Nothing: Or, What Does It Mean to Be “Blood Simple�? ""; ""Blood Simplicity ""; ""The Deadlock in the Coens� Critical Reception ""; ""The Supplement at the Origin ""; ""Screen/Play ""; ""A Sign! ""; ""Raw Intelligence ""; ""The Criminal and the Commonplace ""; ""The Eruption of the Real ""; ""Beyond the Metaphysics of Presence and Absence ""; ""Everything You Always Wanted to Know ""; ""1 All-American Nihilism ""; ""The Ballad of Sheriff Bell ""; ""The Film That Wasn�t There ""; ""The Question of the Meaning of Being ""

""Being-in-the-World """"mr.loser.com ""; ""Yo� Ass! ""; ""Anxiety Has No Object ""; ""The Grim Reaper in West Texas Denim ""; ""Resoluteness ""; ""True Love and True Crime ""; ""2 The Symbolic Object and the Subject of Fantasy ""; ""Assuming the Worst ""; ""The Subject of Fantasy ""; ""The Divided Self-Image ""; ""Why So Uptight, Osborne Cox? ""; ""Narcissistic Aggression and Existential Negativity ""; ""The Instance of the Letter ""; ""The Dialectics of Demand ""; ""Seducing Surveillance ""; ""The Dude Supposed to Know ""; ""The Vacuous Truth ""; ""3 Jouissance, the Real ""

""Dirty Little Secrets """"The Sublime Ass of Impossible Enjoyment ""; ""Anxiety Is Not without an Object ""; ""Unbearable Enjoyment ""; ""Enter the Real ""; ""Lack of Lack ""; ""Beyond the Undecidability Principle ""; ""The Plural Logic of the Aporia ""; ""Reassuring Aporia ""; ""Hell Is the Otherâ€?s Jouissance ""; ""(Divorce) Courtly Love ""; ""Razing Big Daveâ



€?s Annex ""; ""The Patter of Little Lawyerâ€?s Feet ""; ""4 Superego Overdrive ""; ""Mattieâ€?s Law ""; ""Beyond the Hermeneutics of Desire ""; ""The Driveâ€?s Circuit ""; ""The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse ""; ""As if by Chance ""

""Glen Jr., Gale Jr. """"Smooth Smooth ""; ""Call It, Friendo ""; ""The Unconscious Sense of Guilt ""; ""Mark It Zero, Dude! ""; ""The Conspiracy of Car Dealers ""; ""Ozzie and Harriet ""; ""Swedish Meatballs ""; ""Force of Law ""; ""Jerry�s Jouissance ""; ""5 Ex Nihilo ""; ""Reinventing the Wheel ""; ""Anamorphosis ""; ""The Dignity of the Thing ""; ""A Man Chasing His Hat ""; ""Sublimation, Superego""; ""Are You in Pictures? ""; ""Traversing the Fantasy ""; ""Pastiche, Surrealism, Realism ""; ""Notes ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index ""