Television and youth culture : televised paranoia
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Television and youth culture : televised paranoia
(Psychoanalysis, education, and social transformation / series editors Jan Jagodzinski, Mark Bracher)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
- : hardcover
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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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