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Television and youth culture : televised paranoia

Title
Television and youth culture : televised paranoia / Jan Jagodzinski.
Author
Jagodzinski, Jan, 1948-
Publication
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Description
ix, 243 pages; 24 cm
Summary
This book theorizes five youth television series: Dawson' Creek, Freaks and Geeks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Roswell, adn Smallville from a psychoanalytic perspective drawing on the meeting ground between Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari. Jagodzinski develops the notion of self-refleXivity (as distinct from self-reflection and self reflexion) to identify that aspect of the inhuman within ourselves, namely the order of the drives that these series explore. It is argued that the narratology of the post-Gothic form of Buff, Roswell, and Smallville is the structure of paranoid schizophrenia. A hyper self-reflexivity informs Dawson's Creek, while Freaks and Geeks deals with ethical dilemmas.
Series Statement
Education, psychoanalysis, social transformation
Uniform Title
Psychoanalysis, education, and social transformation
Subject
  • Television and youth
  • Mass media and youth
  • Youth > Psychology
  • Youth > Social conditions
  • Identity (Psychology) in youth
  • Fernsehprogramm
  • Jugend Motiv
  • Paranoia
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238) and index.
Contents
Madness and paranoia -- From self-reflexion to self-refleXion : acknowledging the inhuman from self-reflection to self-reflexion -- Dawson's Creek's reflexivity -- Dawson's Creek : the postlude -- Freak and geeks : "I don't give a damn 'bout a bad reputation" -- And the geeks [line strikes through "geeks"] freaks will inherit the earth -- The death drive's at stake : Buffy : the vampire slayer -- The Buffyverse soteriology : youth's garden of earthly delights -- Aliens "R" us : searching for the posthuman teenager -- Smallville, somebody save me! Bringing Superman down to earth -- Stamping out alien-human freaks : Smallville's moral duty.
ISBN
  • 1403976481
  • 9781403976482
  • 1403978085
  • 9781403978080
LCCN
2008015625
OCLC
  • ocn222250351
  • 222250351
  • SCSB-1500386
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library