Jan Jagodzinski

Television and Youth Culture

Televised Paranoia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores youth in postmodern society through a Lacanian lens. Jagodzinski explores the generalized paranoia that pervades the landscape of television. Instead of dismissing paranoia as a negative development, he claims that youth today labour within the context of paranoia to find their identities.

Produktdetails

• Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-7648-2
• 2008
• Seitenzahl: 243
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9781403976482
• ISBN-10: 1403976481
• Artikelnr.: 23305221

Autorenporträt

JAN JAGODZINSKI is Professor in the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Youth Living in Paranoic Times PART I: TELEVISED PARANOIAC SPACES The 'Real' of Reality Television The Paranoiac Space of The X-Files The 'X' in the Self-refleXive Narrative: The X-Files PART II: THE REAL PARANOIA The Death Drive's at Stake: Buffy: The Vampire Slayer The Buffyverse Soteriology: Youth's Garden of Earthly Delights PART III: SELF-REFELEXIVE NARCISSISM ANDALIENATION Dawson's Creek: Vacating Trauma Through Nostalgia Roswell High: The Limits of the In/Human Smallville: Youth as Alien Other The Ecographies of Television: Youth Undercover

---

Youth Living in Paranoic Times PART I: TELEVISED PARANOIAC SPACES The "Real" of Reality - Television The Paranoiac Space of The X-Files The "X" in the Self-refleXive Narrative: The X-Files - PART II: THE REAL PARANOIA The Death Drive's at Stake: Buffy: The Vampire Slayer The Buffyverse - Soteriology: Youth's Garden of Earthly Delights PART III: SELF-REFELEXIVE NARCISSISM AND - ALIENATION Dawson's Creek: Vacating Trauma Through Nostalgia Roswell High: The Limits of the - In/Human Smallville: Youth as Alien Other The Ecographies of Television: Youth Undercover -

---

Rezensionen

"This book offers an intellectual explication of each of thsee particular shows through a lens of individual self-perception as well as cultural identity that speaks to not just psychoanalysis, but sociology, education, and even media studies. In doing so, Jagodzinski provides, in a density that echoes Lacan's style, a sharp explanation of post-Freudian thinking." - P.L. Yoder, Choice