Why Perversion is not Subversive

Beschriftung Kassette: Slavij Žižek proposes as a theme of his talk David Lynch "Why Perversion is not Subversive". He plans to focus on "The Lost Highwah", dealing with how this film, visually and narratively, subverts the coordinates of the classical "Noir". He will read the film against the more general background of the ambiguous function of sensorship in Hollywood, explaining why, sometimes, the unstrained transgression can be even more conformist than following the censorship rules. His point will be that "The Lost Highway" is neither a postmodern selfreflective ironic pastiche nor a New Age obscurantist "innerjourney", but a model of Idelogiekritik in cinema, indermining today's fundamental ideological fantasies.

aus der Festschrift Zehn Jahre Depot, diverse Autoren, http://www.depot.or.at/files/depot_10jahre.pdf: Slavij Žižek focusses on Lost Highway by David Lynch, dealing with how this film, visually and narratively, subverts the coordinates of the classical Noir. He will read the film against the more general background of the ambiguous function of censorship in Hollywood, explaining why, sometimes, the unstrained transgression can be even more conformist than following the censorship rules. His point is that this film is a model of eologiekritik in cinema, undermining today s fundamental ideological fantasies.