Session Details

Sunday, 30 December

667. Psychoanalysis, Cinema, and the Politics of Culture

8:30–9:45 a.m., Gold Coast, Hyatt Regency

A special session

Presiding: Jennifer Friedlander, Pomona Coll.

1. “Mass Media as Politics: Zizek, Erin Brockovich, and Fahrenheit 9/11,” Henry Krips, Claremont Graduate Univ.

2. “Disbelief in the Present Moment: Stunned, Coasting, and Managing Things in Laurent Cantet’s Time Out,” Lauren Berlant, Univ. of Chicago

3. “All Politics Are Identity Politics: Freud, Erikson, and Lone Star,” David R. Shumway, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

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