‘But There Are No Lions in the Scottish Highlands’: Reading the trunk in Matka

John Wei

doi:10.1386/sfs.4.1.51_1

ISSN: 2042-7824
E-ISSN: 2042-7832

‘But There Are No Lions in the Scottish Highlands’: Reading the trunk in Matka
By John Wei¹
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Source: Short Film Studies, Volume 4, Issue 1, Apr 2014, p. 51 - 54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/sfs.4.1.51_1
- Published online: 01 Apr 2014

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This article reads the trunk in Matka as Lacan’s objet petit a – a reminder of our desiring subjectivity and considers to what degree it might be seen as a MacGuffin. It also argues that the protagonist is an emblem of the human subject in an abstract representation of our life’s journey.

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Keyword(s): Hitchcock; Lacanian theory; MacGuffin; Matka; objet petit a; short film

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