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 thatyouth today labor within the context of paranoia to find their identities. INDICE: 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 AND - ALIENATION * 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 -
- ISBN: 978-1-4039-7808-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 27/03/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés