{"product_id":"deception-in-modern-art-and-hollywood-9781350515086","title":"Deception in Modern Art and Hollywood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the last 200 years, a paradoxical fear of deception has grown  in the fields of art and popular culture  modes of expression  that are traditionally dedicated to creating illusory, artificial  worlds. More and more, fiction is expected to reflect what we  perceive to be reality and, simultaneously, to indicate to viewers  that they are dealing with deceptive strategies. But what if  fabrications are not devoid of truth? What if art and popular  culture, with all their fakery, can critically and convincingly  tackle individual or political predicaments? And what if, as  Jacques Lacan put it, truth has the structure of a fiction?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeception in Modern Art and Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e pursues this topic on  several levels. It explores the philosophical implications of being  in the know' and the fear of deception within the theoretical frame  of Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Meanwhile, a  Marxist theoretical tradition  from Theodor Adorno to Fredric  Jameson and Louis Althusser  is used to conceptualize the  broader historical, social and political implications of these ideas. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRanging from the late nineteenth century to the present  day, this exciting text takes psychoanalytic and Marxist theory to classic Hollywood themes of appearance, mediation,  indirection and deception. It presents a novel understanding  of our ongoing, entangled affair with moving images, and  the emancipatory messages that they contain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187327426903,"sku":"9781350515086","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/deception-in-modern-art-and-hollywood-9781350515086","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}