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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...]'s character visit to the murderer in ''[[Strangers On A Train]]'' or the detective's demise in the Bates' mansion in ''Psycho.'' However, a completely nonfunc ...series, ''Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators''. The long-running detective series was clever and well written, with characters much younger than the [
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...w in advance who did it (since we directly see it), but, inexplicably, the detective Columbo himself immediately [[knows]] it: the [[moment]] he visits the scen
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  The hero of [[Dashiell Hammett]]'s Maltese Falcon, the private detective Sam Spade, narrates the story of his being hired to find a man who had sudd
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...ve novels avant la [[lettre]]: since poor Aristotle didn't yet know of the detective novel, he had to refer to the only examples at his disposal-the tragedies.
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...s at his disposal, the tragedies.<ref>See Dorothy L. Sayers, "Aristotle on Detective [[Fiction]]," Unpopular Opinions (New York, 1947), pp. 222-36.</ref> Along
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...thieves; we go to artistic tea-parties to detect pessimists. The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We dis As another detective notices in a terse [[English]] style remark: "It seems so silly that you sh
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...tes her desire. Abdallah’s [[position]] is like the one of the hero of a detective novel who is all of a sudden persecuted, even threatened with death – he
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• Move the Underground!
  ...hodoxy in his famous "[[Defense]] of Detective Story," he remarked how the detective story "keeps in some [[sense]] before the mind the fact that [[civilization
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...eality" itself (Neo can stop bullets there also, etc.). Is this not like a detective novel in which, after a series of complex clues, the proposed solution woul
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...st sensational of departures and the most romantic of rebellions. When the detective in a police romance stands alone, and somewhat fatuously fearless amid the
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...dpoint of the murderous Thing itself upon the transfixed face of the dying detective Arbogast in <b>Psycho</b>, or, in <b>[[The Birds]]</b>, the famous God's vi
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• The Purloined Letter
  ...ese stories are considered to be important early forefunners of the modern detective story. It first appeared in ''The [[Gift]] for 1845'' (1844) and was soon r ...named [[narrator]] is meeting with the famous [[Paris|Parisian]] amateur [[detective]] [[Auguste Dupin]], and discussing some of his most celebrated cases, when
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• Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View
  ...Kurt Wallander as their hero, is the exemplary [[case]] of the fate of the detective novel in our era of [[global]] [[capitalism]].<br> ...ome, Alexander the Great's court... There is, of course, in the history of detective fiction, a long [[tradition]] of eccentric locales ([[recall]] Robert van G
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  ...ou will be better able to grasp the subtleties of his arguments concerning detective [[fiction]], pornography, [[democracy]] and [[Hitchcock]].
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...ture]] which was not in English." Specifically he consumed vast amounts of detective [[fiction]], from [[Patricia Highsmith]] and Ruth Rendell of whom he has re ...feature is the popular culture connection, Hitchcock, [[science]] fiction, detective novels etc. All that I formulated in those years of the late Seventies."
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  Zizek writes on detective fiction, art-house cinema or high opera as domains of culture that are assu
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...starting with G.K. [[Chesterton]]'s famous aphorism from "A [[Defence]] of Detective Stories": '[[Morality]] is the most dark and daring of conspiracies' (TK, 2
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• Jacques Lacan:The Symbolic
  ...short story The Purloined Letter was the final tale in a trilogy about the detective, M. Dupin. The story concerns the theft of a letter from the Queen by one o
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• Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'
  ...are we ourselves not taken in by the imposing [[presence]] of the amateur detective, prototype of a latter-day swashbuckler, as yet safe from the insipidity of
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