[ecrea] New Book: Zizek and Media Studies: A Reader

New Book: Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan 2014)

Edited by Matthew Flisfeder and Louis-Paul Willis

http://us.macmillan.com/zizekandmediastudies/

Available April 9th, 2014

Since the early 1970s, film, media, and cultural theorists have appealed 
to Lacanian psychoanalytic theory in order to discern processes of 
subjectivization, representation, and ideological interpellation. 
However, beginning with the work of theorists such as Jacqueline Rose, 
Joan Copjec, and Slavoj Žižek, a new approach to Lacan has been 
advanced, one which pays closer attention to concepts such as sexual 
difference, the 'objet petit a' (the object-cause of desire), fantasy, 
the Real, enjoyment, and the drive. Žižek in particular has advanced a 
political-philosophical re-interpretation of Lacan that has spawned a 
whole new wave of film, media, and cultural theory that shows a marked 
difference from an early Lacanian approach. The contributors in this 
book take up a specifically Žižekian approach to studies of cinema and 
media, both old and new, raising questions about power, ideology, sexual 
difference, and enjoyment. Including chapters written by key figures in 
Žižekian film, media, and cultural theory such as Jodi Dean, Todd 
McGowan, Paul A. Taylor, and Fabio Vighi, it concludes with a response 
from Žižek himself.

Praise

"Flisfeder and Willis completely reshape our understanding of the 
history of psychoanalytic film theory by contextualizing it through 
Slavoj Žižek's impact. Žižek and Media Studies comes at a time when 
contemporary psychoanalytic film theory has changed substantially and 
this contribution is thus required reading."

- Hilary Neroni, Film and Television Studies, University of Vermont, USA 
and author of The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis, Biopolitics, and 
Media Representations

"One thing that makes reading Žižek so interesting and (let's be honest) 
entertaining is the way he engages popular culture and media. 
Unfortunately the impact of this effort has been largely 
underappreciated within the discipline of Media Studies. This book 
repairs that deficiency by developing a distinctly Žižekian approach to 
media scholarship. It is indispensable for anyone interested in Žižek 
and a must-read for students, teachers, and researchers in Media, Film, 
and Communication Studies."

- David J. Gunkel, Professor, Northern Illinois University, USA and 
author of The Machine Question and Heidegger and the Media

Table of Contents

Introduction: Žižek and Media Studies, Beyond Lacan; Matthew Flisfeder 
and Louis-Paul Willis

PART I: MEDIA, IDEOLOGY, AND POLITICS
1. Žižek's Reception: Fifty Shades of Gray Ideology; Paul A. Taylor
2. The Sublime Absolute: Althusser, Žižek, and the Critique of Ideology; 
Agon Hamza
3. Student Fantasies: A Žižekian Perspective on the 2012 Quebec Student 
Uprising; Louis-Paul Willis
4. The Objective: The Configuration of Trauma in the 'War on Terror,' or 
the Sublime Object of the Medium; Richard Bégin

PART II: POPULAR CULTURE
5. The Priority of the Example: Hegel Contra Film Studies; Todd McGowan
6. Imagining the End Times: Ideology, the Contemporary Disaster Movie, 
and Contagion; Matthew Beaumont
7. Žižek and the 80s Movie Song: "There Is a Non-Relationship"; Graham Wolfe
8. A Little Piece of the Reel: Prosthetic Vocality and the Obscene 
Surplus of Record Production; Mickey Vallee
9. White Elephants and Dark Matter(s): Watching the World Cup with 
Slavoj Žižek; Tim Walters

PART III: FILM AND CINEMA
10. Contingent Encounters and Retroactive Signification: Zooming in on 
the Dialectical Core of Žižek's Film Criticism; Fabio Vighi
11. How to Kill Your Mother: Heavenly Creatures, Desire and Žižek's 
Return to Ideology; Cindy Zeiher
12. Dialogue with American Skepticism: Cavell and Žižek on Sexual 
Difference; Keiko Ogata
13. From Interpassive to Interactive Cinema: A Genealogy of the Moving 
Image of Cynicism; Tamas Nagypal
14. Beyond the Beyond: CGI and the Anxiety of Overperfection; Hugh Manon

PART IV: SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE INTERNET
15. Slavoj Žižek as Internet Philosopher; Clint Burnham
16. The Real Internet; Jodi Dean
17. Enjoying Social Media; Matthew Flisfeder
18. Is Torture Part of Your Social Network; Tara Atluri


Afterword: Art
Staging Feminine Hysteria: Schoenberg's Erwartung; Slavoj Žižek


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