Paul A Taylor

Zizek and the Media

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780745643670
• ISBN-10: 0745643671
• Artikelnr.: 33271053

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

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Acknowledgements. Preface: The Dog's Bollocks At the Media Dinner Party.
Introduction. Chapter 1 The Mediated Imp of The Perverse. Chapter 2 Zizek's
Tickling Shtick. Chapter 3 Big (Br)Other Psychoanalyzing the Media. Chapter
4 Understanding Media: The Sublime Objectification of Ideology. Chapter 5
The Media's Violence. Chapter 6 The Joker's Little Shop of Ideological
Horrors. Conclusion Don't Just Do It. Bibliography.

Rezensionen

"An eloquent and compelling insight into the worldview of ?i?ek andhis contribution to the fields of medi and cultural analysis... It is nothing less than a myth-busting exposition of how,in the age of media saturation, we are directed to live andperceive."
Media, Culture & Society

"Ask not for whom theory waits, motionless - it waits for all of usin Paul Taylor's excellent Zizek and the Media."
Media Education Research Journal

"Taylor does a superb job of showing how electrifying andprofound the media current that flows through Zizek's work reallyis."
Joan Copjec, University at Buffalo

"Paul Taylor's Zizek and the Media provides a thoroughintroduction to the paradoxes and subtleties of Slavoj Zizek'sthought, and at the same time it articulates a compelling theory ofhow the contemporary media functions in unforeseen ways. Taylor'soriginality derives from his vigilant attention to forms. He is thefirst to explain fully how the idiosyncratic form in which Zizekpresents his philosophy emerges out of its content. And in theprocess, he grasps what makes Zizek's such a penetrating critiqueof our media universe. Taylor's book goes beyond being a book aboutZizek and becomes one that enacts Zizek's mode of thinking on itsreaders."
Todd McGowan, University of Vermont

"All jokes aside, this is a seriously serious book. Zizek is oneof the most media-savvy of all contemporary philosophers, andmedium in the form of the concrete universal is one of his mostimportant concepts. Paul Taylor does a terrific job puttingtogether these two sides of Zizek to produce a provocative parallaxview."
Rex Butler, University of Queensland