Sheila Kunkle is Associate Professor of Individualized Studies at Metropolitan State University and the coeditor (with Todd McGowan) of Lacan and Contemporary Film.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On the Subject of EndingsSheila Kunkle1. Resolution, Truncation, Glitch 19Hugh S. Manon2. The Banality of Trauma: Claire Denis’s Bastards and the Anti-EndingHilary Neroni3. The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Played: Desire, Drive, and the Twist EndingRyan Engley4. Retroactive Rupture: The Place of the Subject in Jane Campion’s In the Cut Fabio Vighi5. Love, Loss, Endings, and Beginnings: A Psychoanalysis of Rust and Bone Juan Pablo Lucchelli6. Cinematic Ends: The Ties that Unbind in Claire Denis’s White Material Jennifer Friedlander7. When One Becomes Two: The Ending of Catfish Rex Butler8. The Satisfaction of an EndingTodd McGowan9. The Too Realistic Cut: Gaze as Overconformity in Blue Velvet Henry Krips10. The End of Fantasy as We Know It: Her and the Vanishing Mediator of the Voice in FilmSheila Kunkle11. Melancholia, an Alternative to the End of the World: A Reading of Lars von Trier’s FilmDavid Denny12. Cut or Time and American Cinema of Thought-Affect: Cuts of Failure in John Huston’s Fat City A. Kiarina Kordela13. The End of (Self) Analysis: The End of Kurosawa’s High and Low Brian Wall14. The Final Failure in The Dark Knight Rises Slavoj Žižek 15. The ["End"]jan jagodzinskiContributorsIndex

Sheila Kunkle is Associate Professor of Individualized Studies at Metropolitan State University and the coeditor (with Todd McGowan) of Lacan and Contemporary Film.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On the Subject of EndingsSheila Kunkle1. Resolution, Truncation, Glitch 19Hugh S. Manon2. The Banality of Trauma: Claire Denis’s Bastards and the Anti-EndingHilary Neroni3. The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Played: Desire, Drive, and the Twist EndingRyan Engley4. Retroactive Rupture: The Place of the Subject in Jane Campion’s In the Cut Fabio Vighi5. Love, Loss, Endings, and Beginnings: A Psychoanalysis of Rust and Bone Juan Pablo Lucchelli6. Cinematic Ends: The Ties that Unbind in Claire Denis’s White Material Jennifer Friedlander7. When One Becomes Two: The Ending of Catfish Rex Butler8. The Satisfaction of an EndingTodd McGowan9. The Too Realistic Cut: Gaze as Overconformity in Blue Velvet Henry Krips10. The End of Fantasy as We Know It: Her and the Vanishing Mediator of the Voice in FilmSheila Kunkle11. Melancholia, an Alternative to the End of the World: A Reading of Lars von Trier’s FilmDavid Denny12. Cut or Time and American Cinema of Thought-Affect: Cuts of Failure in John Huston’s Fat City A. Kiarina Kordela13. The End of (Self) Analysis: The End of Kurosawa’s High and Low Brian Wall14. The Final Failure in The Dark Knight Rises Slavoj Žižek 15. The ["End"]jan jagodzinskiContributorsIndex