Television and Youth Culture

Televised Paranoia
2008. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4039-7648-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jagodzinski, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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