Television and Youth Culture: Televised Paranoia

by J. jagodzinski

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403976482
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	03/26/2009
Series:	Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	243
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"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

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