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Youth Fantasies: The Perverse Landscape of the Media

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  • © 2004

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  1. Jan Jagodzinski
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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: A Road Map of What’s to Come

    1. Introduction: A Road Map of What’s to Come

      • Jan Jagodzinski
      Pages 1-14

  3. The Non-Divide Between Fantasy and Reality: Setting Up Our Study

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. A Historical Andenken: Youthful Appropriations

      • Jan Jagodzinski
      Pages 17-29

    3. Our Hypothesis: Youth Fantasies Lacanian Style

      • Jan Jagodzinski
      Pages 31-47

    4. A Lacanian Approach to Media

      • Jan Jagodzinski
      Pages 49-66

  4. Post-Oedipalization: Postmodern Drive Culture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Is Kronos Eating Our Children? Historical Fathers

      • Jan Jagodzinski
      Pages 69-85

    3. The Contradictory Demands of the Superego: Contemporary Fathers

      • Jan Jagodzinski
      Pages 87-102

    4. The Loss of Symbolic Authority in Postmodernity

      • Jan Jagodzinski
      Pages 103-122

  5. Cyberspace as Obsessive Interpassivity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. Media Violence and Youth (Yet Again!?)

      • Jan Jagodzinski
      Pages 125-136

    3. Between Popular Belief and Fact

      • Jan Jagodzinski
      Pages 137-151

    4. Girl/Gurl/Grrrl Video Games and Cyberspace

      • Jan Jagodzinski
      Pages 153-167

    5. The Myths of Media Interactivity: Youth and Cyberspace

      • Jan Jagodzinski
      Pages 169-186

    6. Fantasy Structures in Virtual Communities: The Perverted GaZe

      • Jan Jagodzinski
      Pages 187-208

    7. The Dream of Total Knowledge: Hypertextual Fantasies

      • Jan Jagodzinski
      Pages 209-220

    8. Looping Back to Video Games: The Question of Technological Interpassivity

      • Jan Jagodzinski
      Pages 221-230

  6. ? Conclusion ? “Are the Kids Alright?”

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231
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    2. Are the Kids Alright?

      • Jan Jagodzinski
      Pages 233-240
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About this book

Youth Fantasies is a collection of studies conducted in cross-cultural collaboration over the past ten years that theorizes 'youth fantasy'; as manifested through the media of TV, film, and computer games. Unlike other media studies and education books, the authors employ both Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalytic concepts to attempt to make sense of teen culture and the influence of mass media. The collection includes case studies of X-Files fans, the influence of computer games and the 'Lara Croft' phenomenon, and the reception of Western television by Tanzanian youth. The authors see this book as a much needed reconciliation between cultural studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and attempt to highlight why Lacan is important to note when exploring youth fantasy and interest in the media, especially in shows like X-Files .

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'Provides rich insights for educators and counsellors so that no one concerned with youth or interested in Lacanian theory or postmodernity can afford to do without.' - Mark Bracher, Kent State University, USA

About the author

JAN JAGODZINSKI is a Professor in the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta. He is the author of Pedagogical Desire: Authority, Seduction, Transference, and the Question of Ethics and Postmodern Dilemmas: Outrageous Essays in Art & Art Education.

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