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This book explores youth in postmodern society through a Lacanian lens. Jagodzinski explores the generalized paranoia that pervades the landscape of television. Instead of dismissing paranoia as a negative development, he claims that youth today labour within the context of paranoia to find their identities.

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This book offers an intellectual explication of each of thsee particular shows through a lens of individual self-perception as well as cultural identity that speaks to not just psychoanalysis, but sociology, education, and even media studies.  In doing so, Jagodzinski provides, in a density that echoes Lacan's style, a sharp explanation of post-Freudian thinking. -- P.L. Yoder, Choice   

Playful, challenging, and frequently surprising, Television and Youth Culture is a veritable tour-de-force, It is a powerful example of how to practice engaged scholarship that is equally at home with the complexities of philosophical ideas as it is with the practices of everyday media culture. --Joanna Zylinska, Reader in New Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London<p> The third of a trilogy on media and youth culture, Television and Youth Culture extends the application of Lacan and Deleuze in conceptualizing youth as a postmodern signifier rather than a developmental age. jagodzinski brings a powerful psychoanalytic framework to bear on seemingly banal youth television series. You'll never watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the same way again. -- James A. Anderson, Professor and Director of the Center for Communication and Community, Department of Communication, University of Utah

This book offers an intellectual explication of each of thsee particular shows through a lens of individual self-perception as well as cultural identity that speaks to not just psychoanalysis, but sociology, education, and even media studies. In doing so, Jagodzinski provides, in a density that echoes Lacan's style, a sharp explanation of post-Freudian thinking. - P.L. Yoder, Choice

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JAN JAGODZINSKI is Professor in the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Canada.

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