Hugh S. Manon

Hugh S. Manon (Ph.D. Pittsburgh) is an Associate Professor in the Screen Studies Program at Oklahoma State University where he specializes in Lacanian theory and film noir. He has published in Cinema Journal, Film Criticism, Framework, International Journal of Žižek Studies, and numerous anthologies, including articles on Tod Browning, Edgar G. Ulmer, George Romero, Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity, Michael Haneke’s Caché, and Stanley Kubrick’s films noirs. He is interested in lo-fi and punk representation in relation to the psychodynamics of failure, and is currently developing a book project entitled “Lack and Losslessness: Toward a Lacanian Aesthetics.”