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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 Zizek, 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. Zizek 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 Zizekian 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 Zizekian film, media, and cultural theory such as Jodi Dean, Todd McGowan, Paul A. Taylor, and Fabio Vighi, it concludes with a response from Zizek himself.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Zizek and Media Studies
• Subtitle: A Reader
• Author: M. Flisfeder, L. Willis
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9781137366245
• ISBN: 1137366249
• ID: 04771461
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 512 g
• Dimensions: 223 × 138 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. April 2014

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