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The essays within this collection explore the possibilities and potentialities of all three positions, presenting encounters that are, at times contradictory, at other times supportive, as well as complementary. The collection thereby enriches the questions that are being raised within contemporary cinematic studies.

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Introduction: Lacanian/Deleuzian; J.Jagodzinski PART I: TOPOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERS Signifier, Signified vs. Actual, Virtual: Lacan, Deleuze and the Projective Screen; H.Bressemmen On the Possibilities of Political Art: How Zizek Misreads Deleuze and Lacan; R.Samuels Hitchcock´s Fantasy: Real or Reality?; P.Pisters PART II: CINEMATIC ENCOUNTERS Television´s Supernatural: Desire and Production, Immanence and Death in Cinema´s Spectral Subjectivities; G.Gorman Vicissitudes of the Father: Power and Pleasure in the Films of P.T. Anderson; P.S.Eisenstein Symbolic Discontinuities in the Coen Brothers; K.D.Cho PART III: AFFECTIVE ENCOUNTERS Affective Men; F.Colman ´What´s Love Got to Do with Narcissism?: Kim, Ki-duck´s Time (Shi-gan)´; M.Lee Crazy Love; S.Kunkle PART IV: ENCOUNTERS OF THE REAL The Real: Lynch, Lacan, Deleuze and Functions of the Uncanny; F.Beckman Tearing a Real image: Deleuze´s Subversion of Cinematic Sense and the Sense of Lacan´s Subversion; F.Vighi Occasioning the Real: Lacan, Deleuze, and Cinematic Structuring of Sense; E.Wessels PART V: POLITICAL AND PRODUCTIVE ENCOUNTERS Dynamic Biopolitics and Biocinema (Marx, Deleuze, Lacan); A.K.Kordela Godard between Psychoanalysis and Its Enemies; T.McGowan ´Who will Survive and What will be Left of Them?´: Violence, Sensation, and Living Death in Horror Film; J.Wallin

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Frida Beckman Hanjo Berressem jan jagodzinski Kiarina Kordela Sheila Kunkle Meera Lee Todd McGowan Patricia Pisters Bob Samuels Jason Wallin Emanuelle Wessels

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