Zizek and Media Studies [electronic resource] : A Reader /
Flisfeder, M.editor.
Willis, L.editor.
Film, media, and cultural theorists have long appealed to Lacanian theory in order to discern processes of subjectivization, representation, and ideological interpellation. Here, the contributors take up a Zizekian approach to studies of cinema and media, raising questions about power, ideology, sexual difference, and enjoyment.
Description based upon print version of record.
Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Žižek and Media Studies, Beyond; Part I Media, Ideology, and Politics; 1 Žižek's Reception: Fifty Shades of Gray Ideology; 2 The Sublime Absolute: Althusser, Žižek, and the Critique of Ideology; 3 Student Fantasies: A Žižekian Perspective on the 2012 Quebec Student Uprising; 4 The Objective: The Configuration of Trauma in the "War on Terror," or the Sublime Object of the Medium; Part II Popular Culture; 5 The Priority of the Example: Speculative Identity in Film Studies
6 Imagining the End Times: Ideology, The Contemporary Disaster Movie, Contagion7 Žižek and the 80s Movie Song: "There Is a Non-Relationship"; 8 A Little Piece of the Reel: Record Production and the Surplus of Prosthetic Vocality; 9 White Elephants and Dark Matter(s): Watching the World Cup with Slavoj Žižek; Part III Film and Cinema; 10 Contingent Encounters and Retroactive Signification: Zooming in on the Dialectical Core of Žižek's Film Criticism; 11 How to Kill Your Mother: Heavenly Creatures, Desire, and Žižek's Return to Ideology
12 Dialogue with American Skepticism: Cavell and Žižek on Sexual Difference13 From Interpassive to Interactive Cinema: A Genealogy of the Moving Image of Cynicism; 14 Beyond the Beyond: CGI and the Anxiety of Overperfection; Part IV Social Media and the Internet; 15 Slavoj Žižek as Internet Philosopher; 16 The Real Internet; 17 Enjoying Social Media; 18 Is Torture Part of Your Social Network?; Appendix: Art; Staging Feminine Hysteria: Schoenberg's Erwartung; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Film, media, and cultural theorists have long appealed to Lacanian theory in order to discern processes of subjectivization, representation, and ideological interpellation. Here, the contributors take up a Zizekian approach to studies of cinema and media, raising questions about power, ideology, sexual difference, and enjoyment.
Žižek, Slavoj.
Communication.
Social sciences.
Cultural studies.
Motion pictures and television.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Motion pictures-History.
Media Studies.
Social Sciences, general.
Cultural Studies.
Screen Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Film History.