Television and Youth Culture: Televised Paranoia (Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation)

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. The final book in jan jagodzinski's trilogy explores youth in postmodern society through a Lacanian lens. Jagodzinski explores the generalized paranoia that pervades the landscape of television and its effects on the younger generation. Instead of dismissing paranoia as a negative development, he claims that youth today labor within the context of paranoia to find their identities Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction: Youth Living in Paranoiac Times....Pages 1-13 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Madness and Paranoia....Pages 17-28 From Self-Reflexion to Self-RefleXion:Acknowledging the Inhuman....Pages 29-46 Front Matter....Pages 47-47 Dawson’s Creek’s Reflexivity: Savvy Poststructuralism....Pages 49-60 Dawson’s Creek: The Postlude....Pages 61-73 Freaks and Geeks: “I Don’t Give a Damn ’Bout a Bad Reputation”....Pages 75-90 And the Geeks Freaks Will Inherit the Earth....Pages 91-109 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 The Death Drive’s at Stake: Buffy:The Vampire Slayer ....Pages 113-132 The Buffyverse Soteriology: Youth’s Garden of Earthly Delights....Pages 133-149 Front Matter....Pages 151-151 Aliens “R” Us: Searching for the Posthuman Teenager....Pages 153-167 Smallville, Somebody Save Me! Bringing Superman Down to Earth....Pages 169-186 Stamping Out Alien-Human Freaks: Smallville’s Moral Duty....Pages 187-196 Afterword—A Self-RefleXive Moment....Pages 197-199 Back Matter....Pages 201-243 This book theorizes five youth television series: Dawson's Creek, Freaks and Geeks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Roswell, and Smallville from a psychoanalytic perspective drawing on the meeting ground between Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari. jagodzinski develops the notion of self-refleXivity (as distinct from self-reflection and self reflexion) to identify that aspect of the inhuman within ourselves, namely the order of the drives that these series explore. It is argued that the narratology of the post-Gothic form of Buffy, Roswell, and Smallville is the structure of paranoid schizophrenia. A hyper-self-reflexivity informs Dawson's Creek, while Freaks and Greeks deals with ethical dilemmas This book theorizes five youth television series: Dawson' Creek, Freaks and Geeks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Roswell, adn Smallville from a psychoanalytic perspective drawing on the meeting ground between Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari. Jagodzinski develops the notion of self-refleXivity (as distinct from self-reflection and self reflexion) to identify that aspect of the inhuman within ourselves, namely the order of the drives that these series explore. It is argued that the narratology of the post-Gothic form of Buff, Roswell, and Smallville is the structure of paranoid schizophrenia. A hyper self-reflexivity informs Dawson's Creek, while Freaks and Geeks deals with ethical dilemmas Jan Jagodzinski. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.