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This book is a brilliant response to a famous volume edited by Slavoj Zizek in which Jacques Lacan takes the place of Rene Girard. The author convinces us that one of the best guides to understanding Girard is Hitchcock's filmography. The anguish of the wrongly accused, the irresistible escalation of violence, and the independence of desire from its object are all ingredients of the Hitchcockian suspense, and we follow the author's analyses with the same pleasure as we watched the movies. --Jean-Pierre Dupuy, author of The Mark of the Sacred This book is a brilliant response to a famous volume edited by Slavoj i ek in which Jacques Lacan takes the place of Rene Girard. The author convinces us that one of the best guides to understanding Girard is Hitchcock s filmography. The anguish of the wrongly accused, the irresistible escalation of violence, and the independence of desire from its object are all ingredients of the Hitchcockian suspense, and we follow the author s analyses with the same pleasure as we watched the movies. Jean-Pierre Dupuy, author of The Mark of the Sacred

This book is a brilliant response to a famous volume edited by Slavoj i ek in which Jacques Lacan takes the place of Rene Girard. The author convinces us that one of the best guides to understanding Girard is Hitchcock s filmography. The anguish of the wrongly accused, the irresistible escalation of violence, and the independence of desire from its object are all ingredients of the Hitchcockian suspense, and we follow the author s analyses with the same pleasure as we watched the movies. <b>Jean-Pierre Dupuy, </b> author of <i>The Mark of the Sacred</i>

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David Humbert is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.

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