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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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• Talk:Otto Weininger
  ...se of the femme fatale) as woman embodies his being side-tracked. When the detective returns to his desire and, as it were, stays true to himself, the woman inv ...ifference. Indeed, love at its most beguiling, such as may be found in the detective's love for the femme fatale, presents a series of obstacles to its own fulf
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