Todd McGowan is Associate Professor of Film at the University of Vermont.
A prolific scholar working at the intersection of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and critical theory, he is heavily influenced by thinkers such as Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek.
His body of work spans multiple disciplines, with books examining film, desire, and human subjectivity.
Notable titles include The Fictional Christopher Nolan, Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema, The Impossible David Lynch, and The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan.
Reviewers regard him as one of today's most lucid and essential theorists exploring the complexities of the human condition.
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