Taylor Zizek and the Media

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-5861-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Theory and Media

Slavoj Zizek reaches the parts of the media that other theoristscannot. With sources ranging from Thomas Aquinas to QuentinTarantino and Desperate Housewives to Dostoyevsky, Zizek mixes hightheory with low culture more engagingly than any other thinkeralive today. His prolific output includes such media friendlycontent as a TV series (The Pervert's Guide to Cinema) adocumentary movie (Zizek!) and a wealth of YouTube clips. Acelebrity academic, he walks the media talk.
Zizek and the Media provides a systematic andapproachable introduction to the main concepts and themes ofZizek's work, and their particular implications for the study ofthe media. The book:
* Describes the radical nature of Zizek's media politics
* Uses Zizekian insights to expose the profound intellectuallimitations of conventional approaches to the media
* Explores the psychoanalytical and philosophical roots ofZizek's work
* Provides the reader with Zizekian tools to uncover the hiddenideologies of everyday media content;
Explains the ultimate seriousness that underlies his numerousjokes.
As likely to discuss Homer's Springfield as Ithaca, Zizek isshown to be the ideal guide for today's mediascape.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Paul A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The Dog's Bollocks . . . at the Media DinnerParty viii
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction: 'The Marx Brother', 'The Elvisof 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 Ideology91
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 theAge of Nike 176
Notes 183
Bibliography 189
Index 202

Über Autor(innen)

Paul A. Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Communications Theory at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds