David B Ebert

We are living in an age of rapidly evanescent media transformations. From radio and pulp fiction to cinema, comic books, paperback novels, television and the Internet, the twentieth century has arguably produced more media innovations than in the past five thousand years of recorded history. And whe...

In this new book by cultural critic John David Ebert, George Lucas’s 1977 classic film Star Wars is analyzed in a scene-by-scene breakdown. Ebert takes the reader on a semiotic tour through each of the film’s images and scenes, commenting on their significance and relevance to areas of cultural disc...

In this new book by cultural critic John David Ebert, the 1979 classic science fiction film Alien, directed by Ridley Scott, is analyzed in a scene-by-scene breakdown. Ebert introduces the concept of the “metaphysical vulva” as a counter concept to Lacan’s “phallus” as the film’s central hidden sign...

This book, a sort of “John David Ebert Reader,” collects and gathers his most recent essays, displaying a broad range of topics from spree killers to disappearing planes; from the disintegrative effects of technology upon society to ruminations on contemporary art and literature; and also includes a...

Contemporary art is a very different kind of art from anything that has ever been practiced in the past. It is an art that takes place after the age of metaphysics, when all the imaginary significations that once used to anchor art in traditional meaning systems have disintegrated. Today's artist, c...

Ebert on Deleuze & Guattari; Ebert on Slavoj Zizek; Ebert on Jean Baudrillard; Ebert on Paul Virilio; Ebert on Peter Sloterdijk, etc. etc. It’s all here: fifteen years of John David Ebert’s collected book reviews from his early days as a Joseph Campbell scholar right up to his reviews of Boris Groys...

In this new book by cultural critic John David Ebert, Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film masterpiece "The Shining" is analyzed in a scene-by-scene breakdown. Drawing upon such theoreticians as Martin Heidegger, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Ebert sees the film as the attempts of a human singularity, a...