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Slavoj Zizek reaches the parts of the media that other theorists
cannot. With sources ranging from Thomas Aquinas to Quentin
Tarantino and Desperate Housewives to Dostoyevsky, Zizek mixes high
theory with low culture more engagingly than any other thinker
alive today. His prolific output includes such media friendly
content as a TV series (The Pervert's Guide to Cinema) a
documentary movie (Zizek!) and a wealth of YouTube clips. A
celebrity academic, he walks the media talk.
Zizek and the Media provides a systematic and
approachable introduction to the main concepts and themes of
Zizek's work, and their particular implications for the study of
the media. The book:
Describes the radical nature of Zizek's media politics
Uses Zizekian insights to expose the profound intellectual
limitations of conventional approaches to the media
Explores the psychoanalytical and philosophical roots of
Zizek's work
Provides the reader with Zizekian tools to uncover the hidden
ideologies of everyday media content;
Explains the ultimate seriousness that underlies his numerous
jokes.
As likely to discuss Homer's Springfield as Ithaca, Zizek is
shown to be the ideal guide for today's mediascape.
Auteur
Paul A. Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Communications Theory at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds
Résumé
Slavoj Zizek reaches the parts of the media that other theorists cannot. With sources ranging from Thomas Aquinas to Quentin Tarantino and Desperate Housewives to Dostoyevsky, Zizek mixes high theory with low culture more engagingly than any other thinker alive today. His prolific output includes such media friendly content as a TV series (The Pervert's Guide to Cinema) a documentary movie (Zizek!) and a wealth of YouTube clips. A celebrity academic, he walks the media talk.
Zizek and the Media provides a systematic and approachable introduction to the main concepts and themes of Zizek's work, and their particular implications for the study of the media. The book:
Contenu
Preface: The Dog's Bollocks . . . at the Media Dinner
Party viii
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction: 'The Marx Brother', 'The Elvis
of Cultural Theory', and Other Media Cliches 1
1 The Mediated Imp of the Perverse 6
2 ?i?ek's Tickling Shtick 34
3 Big (Br)Other: Psychoanalysing the Media 63
4 Understanding Media: The Sublime Objectification of Ideology
91
5 The Media's Violence 120
6 The Joker's Little Shop of Ideological Horrors 149
Conclusion: Don't Just Do It: Negative Dialectics in the
Age of Nike 176
Notes 183
Bibliography 189
Index 202