Television and Youth Culture: Televised Paranoia

Contents......Page 8
Introduction: Youth Living in Paranoiac Times......Page 14
The Paranoia of the Posthuman......Page 15
Between Post-Oedipus & Anti-Oedipus......Page 20
Part I: Theoretical Considerations......Page 28
The Vicissitudes of the Schreber Case......Page 30
Post-Oedipal Concerns......Page 31
Post 9/11 Paranoia......Page 33
Televised Simulacra......Page 37
The Power of the Simulacrum......Page 39
2 From Self-Reflexion to Self-RefleXion: Acknowledging the Inhuman......Page 42
From Self-Reflection to Self-Reflexion......Page 44
Self-Reflexive Irony......Page 48
Paranoia within Risk Societies......Page 49
Self-RefleXion: In between Nature and Culture......Page 52
X as the Meeting Place between Lacan and Deleuze......Page 55
Part II: Self-RefleXive Narcissism and Alienation......Page 60
Prelude: Horrific Screams of Teen\'s Hidden Angst......Page 62
Scream and Scream Again: The Pleasures of Self-Referentiality......Page 63
The Final Girl\'s Scream......Page 68
Post-Oedipal Screams......Page 70
4 Dawson\'s Creek: The Postlude......Page 74
There Ain\'t No Rap but Capeside Pap......Page 77
Young Love, Pure \"Confluent\" Love?......Page 78
Confluent Fag-Hag Love......Page 80
Ironic Self-Reflexivity—The Final Episode\'s Joke on Us......Page 83
5 Freaks and Geeks: \"I Don\'t Give a Damn \'Bout a Bad Reputation\"......Page 88
Hegemonic Masculinity......Page 93
Resistance, Rebellion, or Deviance?......Page 94
F&G\'s Music Scene......Page 99
The Power of Refrain......Page 101
The Limits of Post-Subcultural Studies......Page 104
Questioning Hegemony......Page 105
Lacan-Deleuze on Multiplicity......Page 108
Lindsay\'s Ethical Turn......Page 117
A Diagram of the Good Girl\'s Escape......Page 120
Part III: Real Paranoia......Page 124
7 The Death Drive\'s at Stake: Buffy: The Vampire Slayer......Page 126
The Usual (Objectionable) Suspects......Page 127
The Heroine with a Call......Page 129
Opening Up a Porthole: Scratching the Tain of the Mirror......Page 130
Paranoid Psychosis: Suspending the Name-of-the-Father......Page 133
Psychotic-like Language as Ethical Slayage......Page 136
The Matrix of Players: The ONE=THREE of Buffy\'s Postfeminism......Page 139
The Boyz/Bois/Boys and Gurls/Girls/Grrrls in Buffy......Page 141
8 The Buffyverse Soteriology: Youth\'s Garden of Earthly Delights......Page 146
The Doubled Road of Ethics......Page 150
An Ethical Act Proper......Page 155
9/11 Addendum: Has the \"Future of an Illusion\" Collapsed?......Page 158
Part IV: Televised Paranoiac Spaces......Page 164
9 Aliens \"R\" Us: Searching for the Posthuman Teenager......Page 166
Raising Sleeping Beauty from the Dead......Page 167
Paranoiac Split......Page 168
Facing the Alien to the Side......Page 170
Alien Love......Page 171
Post-Oedipal Flips......Page 174
Alien-Angels......Page 175
Abductions......Page 176
Queering Kinship......Page 177
The Roswell Beat......Page 178
Posthumanist Line of Flight......Page 179
Marvel-ing Superman......Page 182
Into the Vortex of the Tornado......Page 188
Wholesome Goodness......Page 189
The Alien Messiah: No Flying Allowed!......Page 192
Fate/Destiny/Choice: Earning His Angel Wings......Page 193
Why A Third Father? Reforming the Criminal CEO......Page 196
Disjunctively Speaking......Page 198
11 Stamping Out Alien-Human Freaks: Smallville\'s Moral Duty......Page 200
It\'s Raining Mutants......Page 201
$ <> S: Or Why Do Lex and Clark Not Laugh at Themselves?......Page 204
Egghead Paranoia......Page 206
Between Fantasy and Delusion—Is a Very Thin Line......Page 208
Afterword—A Self-RefleXive Moment......Page 210
Notes......Page 214
References......Page 234
D......Page 252
I......Page 253
P......Page 254
T......Page 255
Z......Page 256