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Title: Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock by Tom Cohen ISBN: 0-521-46013-1 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 08 September, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Tricky reading but pays off
Comment: Cohen's work here is especially demanding - a very tricky style of writing, I think - but if you can get past that, the essays collected in this work pay you back. While far too many critical theories sabotage their own projects from the very beginning, leaping into ill-thought generalizations of identity or politics, Cohen is aiming for something much much larger than that. Recommended for textualists, deconstructors, and anyone unsatisfied with the disguised vacuity of today's critical scene. 5 stars for me!

Rating: 1
Summary: Overintellectualized pot-head
Comment: The man who wrote this book has a large vocabulary and an amusingly facile grasp of critical issues. Take, for example, these sentences, which are typical: "Yet, as I said, there is something not only too pat but deeply evasive in the above narrative. Indeed, the scandal going into the 90s is not the conservativism of post-structuralism (a claim supplanting that of its "nihilism", which is only the short-hand used about those installing a different model of meaning from the perspective of those standing to be supplanted) but that of factions of the left and various anti-theory pragmatists. To begin with, the very accusation of "formalism" itself is one that has long concealed a potential repression." Etc. etc. This screed is not criticism, it is polemic. If you are interested in literature or film as art, you are best advised to avoid this book. Actually, this book may be an extremely progressive form of novel, in which case it is a priceless work of art. But as criticism, I suggest its author lay off the bong and get down to serious business.