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.

Autorentext

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

Inhalt
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