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cinej-263	Ballas, Anthony James	Review of Cinema/Politics/Philosophy	2020	8	.pdf	application/pdf	1811	61	47	As successful as the book’s main chapters are, and although the book does cover the Althusserian-Lacanian vein, its counterpart in Bordwell and Carrol’s Post-Theory, as well as (albeit briefly) the continuation of the psychoanalytic tradition of film theory and Žižek’s rejoinder to Post Theory in his book The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieślowski Between Theory and CINEJ Cinema Journal: Anthony James Ballas Volume 8.1 (2020) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2020.263 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 296 Post-Theory, there are a few omissions worth mention, in particular Baumbach’s handling of the political features of psychoanalytic film theory today: no mention of Todd McGowan, scant mention of Žižek’s Hegelian-Marxist inspired readings of film, and, perhaps most scandalous of all, no mention of Joan Copjec and her well-known though scarcely cited intervention against Screen theory in her classic “The Orthopsychic Subject” — a point which is still met with contention by figures such as McGowan and Flisfeder (see: McGowan, T. (2007). Thus already in the title Baumbach shows us his hand: this book is neither a work of film criticism nor a method of applying philosophy to individual films, it is a work of reimagining the political and philosophical foundations of film theory.	cache/cinej-263.pdf	txt/cinej-263.txt