Television and Youth Culture: Televised Paranoia

Author:   J. jagodzinski
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
ISBN:  

9781403978080


Pages:   243
Publication Date:   26 March 2009
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   J. jagodzinski
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.397kg
ISBN:  

9781403978080


ISBN 10:   1403978085
Pages:   243
Publication Date:   26 March 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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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   


Playful, challenging, and frequently surprising, Television and Youth Culture is a veritable tour-de-force, It is a powerful example of how to practice engaged scholarship that is equally at home with the complexities of philosophical ideas as it is with the practices of everyday media culture. --Joanna Zylinska, Reader in New Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London<p> The third of a trilogy on media and youth culture, Television and Youth Culture extends the application of Lacan and Deleuze in conceptualizing youth as a postmodern signifier rather than a developmental age. jagodzinski brings a powerful psychoanalytic framework to bear on seemingly banal youth television series. You'll never watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the same way again. -- James A. Anderson, Professor and Director of the Center for Communication and Community, Department of Communication, University of Utah


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

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