Deception in Modern Art and Hollywood

Dr Jela Krecic (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

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Bloomsbury Academic
21 August 2025

Social & political philosophy; Popular culture; TV & society

Over the last 200 years, a paradoxical fear of deception has grown

in the fields of art and popular culture – modes of expression

that are traditionally dedicated to creating illusory, artificial

worlds. More and more, fiction is expected to reflect what we

perceive to be reality and, simultaneously, to indicate to viewers

that they are dealing with deceptive strategies. But what if

fabrications are not devoid of truth? What if art and popular

culture, with all their fakery, can critically and convincingly

tackle individual or political predicaments? And what if, as

Jacques Lacan put it, truth has the structure of a fiction?

Deception in Modern Art and Hollywood pursues this topic on

several levels. It explores the philosophical implications of ‘being

in the know’ and the fear of deception within the theoretical frame

of Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Meanwhile, a

Marxist theoretical tradition – from Theodor Adorno to Fredric

Jameson and Louis Althusser – is used to conceptualize the

broader historical, social and political implications of these ideas.

Ranging from the late nineteenth century to the present

day, this exciting text takes psychoanalytic and Marxist theory to classic Hollywood themes of appearance, mediation,

indirection and deception. It presents a novel understanding

of our ongoing, entangled affair with moving images, and

the emancipatory messages that they contain.

By: Dr Jela Krecic (University of Ljubljana Slovenia)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781350515086
ISBN 10: 1350515086
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 21 August 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jela Krecic is a researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is also a lecturer at the University of Ljubljana teaching popular cultures, media and new media art and theory, and the psychoanalysis of culture and the cultures of violence.

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Dr Jela Krecic (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

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