The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime is first of all the detailed reading
of David Lynch's The Lost Highway, based on the premises of Lacanian
psychoanalysis. Lynch's unique universe of the "ridiculous sublime" is
interpreted as a simultaneous playful staging and traversing of the
fundamental ideological fantasies that sustain our late capitalist
society.
A master of reversals, Zizek invites the reader to reexamine with him
easy assumptions, received opinion, and current critical trends, as well
as pose tough questions about the ways in which we understand our world
and culture. He offers provocative readings of Casablanca, Schindler's
List, and Life Is Beautiful in the process of examining topics as
diverse--and as closely linked--as ethics, politics, and cyberspace.