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.

Moving with ease between the highest and lowest forms of culture, producing productive - paradoxical because indirect - short-circuits, and showing thought where there seems none, the synthetic and analytic powers of the present book will surprise you over and again.

• Foreword, by Robert PfallerIntroduction: On Bad Life and Good Fiction1. Modernism, Postmodernity, or the Fate of Self-Aware Art2. Comedy, Acting, and Stardom … And Fear of Falsity3. Popular Culture and Its Discontents4. The Trouble with Endings, or, Why TV Series Cannot End 5. Tarantino’s Love Letter to Hollywood: Fiction against IdeologyBibliographyFilmography

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.

Moving with ease between the highest and lowest forms of culture, producing productive - paradoxical because indirect - short-circuits, and showing thought where there seems none, the synthetic and analytic powers of the present book will surprise you over and again.

• Foreword, by Robert PfallerIntroduction: On Bad Life and Good Fiction1. Modernism, Postmodernity, or the Fate of Self-Aware Art2. Comedy, Acting, and Stardom … And Fear of Falsity3. Popular Culture and Its Discontents4. The Trouble with Endings, or, Why TV Series Cannot End 5. Tarantino’s Love Letter to Hollywood: Fiction against IdeologyBibliographyFilmography

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.

Moving with ease between the highest and lowest forms of culture, producing productive - paradoxical because indirect - short-circuits, and showing thought where there seems none, the synthetic and analytic powers of the present book will surprise you over and again.

• Foreword, by Robert PfallerIntroduction: On Bad Life and Good Fiction1. Modernism, Postmodernity, or the Fate of Self-Aware Art2. Comedy, Acting, and Stardom … And Fear of Falsity3. Popular Culture and Its Discontents4. The Trouble with Endings, or, Why TV Series Cannot End 5. Tarantino’s Love Letter to Hollywood: Fiction against IdeologyBibliographyFilmography