Dr. Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (2017), Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016), Contemporary Film Directors: Spike Lee (2014), The Fictional Christopher Nolan (2013), Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (2013), The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (2007), The Impossible David Lynch (2007) and Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019) and Universality and Identity Politics (2020). https://vermont.academia.edu/ToddMcGowan

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