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Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader

By Matthew Flisfeder , Louis-Paul Willis

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2014
ISBN
1137366249, 9781137366245
Google Books ID
cLU5AwAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3599344 bytes)
Pages
xiv+300\315
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2014-04-11 09:10:42

Description

Since the early 1970s, film, media, and cultural theorists have appealed to Lacanian psychoanalytic theory in order to discern processes of subjectivization, representation, and ideological interpellation. However, beginning with the work of theorists such as Jacqueline Rose, Joan Copjec, and Slavoj Žižek, a new approach to Lacan has been advanced, one which pays closer attention to concepts such as sexual difference, the 'objet petit a' (the object-cause of desire), fantasy, the Real, enjoyment, and the drive. Žižek in particular has advanced a political-philosophical re-interpretation of Lacan that has spawned a whole new wave of film, media, and cultural theory that shows a marked difference from an early Lacanian approach. The contributors in this book take up a specifically Žižekian approach to studies of cinema and media, both old and new, raising questions about power, ideology, sexual difference, and enjoyment. Including chapters written by key figures in Žižekian film, media, and cultural theory such as Jodi Dean, Todd McGowan, Paul A. Taylor, and Fabio Vighi, it concludes with a response from Žižek himself.

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