Plastic Surgery: Under the Skin, Suture, Destructive Plasticity and Post-Cinematic Ontologies

Analysing Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (2013), this article provides an overview of the importation of suture theory from psychoanalysis into film theory and Žižek’s revisiting of this theory, then bringing about a rapprochement between the concepts of suture and Malabou’s destructive plasticity...

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Published in:	Film-Philosophy
Main Author:	Greg Hainge
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh University Press 2025-02-01
Subjects:	Suture theory post-cinema Catherine Malabou destructive plasticity Under the Skin Slavoj Žižek
Online Access:	https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/film.2025.0301