Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Žižek’s Reception: Fifty Shades of Gray Ideology....Pages 15-25
The Sublime Absolute: Althusser, Žižek, and the Critique of Ideology....Pages 27-38
Student Fantasies: A Žižekian Perspective on the 2012 Quebec Student Uprising....Pages 39-51
The Objective: The Configuration of Trauma in the “War on Terror,” or the Sublime Object of the Medium....Pages 53-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
The Priority of the Example: Speculative Identity in Film Studies....Pages 67-78
Imagining the End Times: Ideology, the Contemporary Disaster Movie, Contagion....Pages 79-89
Žižek and the 80s Movie Song: “There Is a Non-Relationship”....Pages 91-101
A Little Piece of the Reel: Record Production and the Surplus of Prosthetic Vocality....Pages 103-114
White Elephants and Dark Matter(s): Watching the World Cup with Slavoj Žižek....Pages 115-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Contingent Encounters and Retroactive Signification: Zooming in on the Dialectical Core of Žižek’s Film Criticism....Pages 131-147
How to Kill Your Mother: Heavenly Creatures, Desire, and Žižek’s Return to Ideology....Pages 149-160
Dialogue with American Skepticism: Cavell and Žižek on Sexual Difference....Pages 161-172
From Interpassive to Interactive Cinema: A Genealogy of the Moving Image of Cynicism....Pages 173-184
Beyond the Beyond: CGI and the Anxiety of Overperfection....Pages 185-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Slavoj Žižek as Internet Philosopher....Pages 201-210
The Real Internet....Pages 211-227
Enjoying Social Media....Pages 229-240
Is Torture Part of Your Social Network?....Pages 241-253
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Staging Feminine Hysteria: Schoenberg’s Erwartung....Pages 257-275
Back Matter....Pages 277-299