The essays within this collection explore the possibilities and potentialities of all three positions, presenting encounters that are, at times contradictory, at other times supportive, as well as complementary. The collection thereby enriches the questions that are being raised within contemporary cinematic studies.

Frida Beckman
Hanjo Berressem
jan jagodzinski
Kiarina Kordela
Sheila Kunkle
Meera Lee
Todd McGowan
Patricia Pisters
Bob Samuels
Jason Wallin
Emanuelle Wessels

Introduction: Lacanian/Deleuzian;  J.Jagodzinski PART I: TOPOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERS  Signifier, Signified vs. Actual, Virtual: Lacan, Deleuze and the Projective Screen; H.Bressemmen   On the Possibilities of Political Art: How Zizek Misreads Deleuze and Lacan; R.Samuels   Hitchcock's Fantasy: Real or Reality?; P.Pisters  PART II: CINEMATIC ENCOUNTERS  Television's Supernatural: Desire and Production, Immanence and Death in Cinema's Spectral Subjectivities; G.Gorman Vicissitudes of the Father: Power and Pleasure in the Films of P.T. Anderson; P.S.Eisenstein   Symbolic Discontinuities in the Coen Brothers; K.D.Cho   PART III: AFFECTIVE ENCOUNTERS  Affective Men; F.Colman   'What's Love Got to Do with Narcissism?: Kim, Ki-duck's Time (Shi-gan)'; M.Lee  Crazy Love; S.Kunkle   PART IV: ENCOUNTERS OF THE REAL The Real: Lynch, Lacan, Deleuze and Functions of the Uncanny; F.Beckman Tearing a Real image: Deleuze's Subversion of Cinematic Sense and the Sense of Lacan's Subversion; F.Vighi   Occasioning the Real: Lacan, Deleuze, and Cinematic Structuring of Sense; E.Wessels   PART V: POLITICAL AND PRODUCTIVE ENCOUNTERS Dynamic Biopolitics and Biocinema (Marx, Deleuze, Lacan); A.K.Kordela   Godard between Psychoanalysis and Its Enemies; T.McGowan   'Who will Survive and What will be Left of Them?': Violence, Sensation, and Living Death in Horror Film; J.Wallin