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    Cinematic cuts: theorizing film endings (edited book)
    SUNY Press. 2016.
    _Explores the philosophical, literary, and psychoanalytic significance of film endings._ Editing has been called the language of cinema, and thus a film’s ending can be considered the final punctuation mark of this language, framing everything that came before and offering the key to both our interpretation and our enjoyment of a film. In _Cinematic Cuts_, scholars explore the philosophical, literary, and psychoanalytic significance of film endings, analyzing how film endings engage our fantasie…Read more
  • Embracing the Paradox: Zizek’s Illogical Logic
    International Journal of Žižek Studies 2 (4). 2008.
    Zizek, more than any other thinker today, makes use of a paradoxical logic that at every turn reveals its own illogic. His “short circuits” and “parallax view” unveil the Hegelian reversals that posit that Madness is Reason run amok; that the most “normal” character can be taken as “weird,” and that the death drive may serve as both deadlock of and solution to the finite life of the flesh. This essay analyzes the connection between Zizek’s theorizing and his many examples and claims that his wor…Read more
  • Žižek’s Choice
    International Journal of Žižek Studies 1 (3). 2007.
    Throughout Zizek’s work and especially in The Parallax View , he offers detailed cultural and film analyses in order to detect a “short circuit” between two realms, for example, between desire and drive, the particular and the universal, contingency and necessity, etc. Ultimately, the logic of parallax requires a contingent universe of encounters where a paradoxical choice is made, when free will and determinism collapse in a kind of signaling of something different and new to come. By way of fi…Read more