Žižek and media studies a reader / edited by Matthew Flisfeder and Louis-Paul Willis.

Other author Flisfeder, Matthew, 1980-
Other author Willis, Louis-Paul, 1976-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Descriptionxiii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Contents Media, ideology, and politics. Zizek's reception: fifty shades of gray ideology / Paul A. Taylor -- The sublime absolute: Althusser, Zizek, and the critique of ideology / Agon Hamza -- Student fantasies: a Zizekian perspective on the 2012 Quebec Student Uprising/ Louis-Paul Willis -- The objective: the configuration of trauma in the "War on terror", or the sublime object of the medium / Richard Bégin -- Popular culture. The priority of the example: Hegel contra film studies / Todd McGowan -- Imagining the end times: ideology, the contemporary disaster movie and contagion / Matthew Beaumont -- Zizek and the 80s movie song: there is a non-relationship / Graham Wolfe -- A little piece of the reel: prosthetic vocality and the obscene surplus of record production / Mickey Vallee -- White elephants and dark matter(s): watching the World Cup with Slavoj Zizek / Tim Walters -- Film and cinema. Contingent encounters and retroactive signification: zooming in on the dialectical core of Zizek's film criticism / Fabio Vighi -- How to kill your mother: heavenly creatures, desire, and Zizek's return to ideology / Cindy Zeiher -- Dialogue with American scepticism: Cavell and Zizek on sexual difference / Keiko Ogata -- From interpassive to interactive cinema: a genealogy of the moving image of cynicism / Tamasamas Nagypal -- Beyond the beyond: cgi and the anxiety of overperfection / Hugh Manon -- Social media and the internet. Slavoj Zizek as internet philosopher / Clint Burnham -- The real internet / Jodi Dean -- Enjoying social media / Matthew Flisfeder -- Is torture part of your social network / Tara Atluri.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-288) and index.
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LCCN 2013042136
ISBN9781137366245 (alk. paper)

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