Zizek: film reviewer

[Catherine Driscoll]

While I understand why Zizek wants to talk about the ethical paradox 'of 
our age' as 'the overlapping of the transgressive and the normal', I don't 
think I'm convinced the strength of that statement has anything to do with 
his cursory reading of those films.
Isn't the ethical extreme appearing in less mainstream film while 'popular' 
film presents the simplification into moral poles only what people 
generally expect from these film genres? I wish he'd actually discussed how 
the overlapping of the transgressive and the normal is an ethical paradox. 
That would have been interesting.
And there are things I don't think are at all clear in this piece -- what 
is our age here?, the ref to postmodern art just confused me given that 
what he's discussing can't possibly be confined to post 80s culture; and 
who is we here -- Bosnian nuns and visitors to the Tate gallery are all 'we'?
Oh well...
Catherine

At 22:10 19/04/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Zizek on David Lynch's The Straight Story and The Talented Mr. Riply:
>
>http://www.britannica.com/bcom/original/article/0,5744,5602,00.html

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