Zizek and the Media (Theory and Media) - Softcover

Taylor, Dr Paul A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074564368X ISBN 13: 9780745643687

Publisher: Polity, 2010

Synopsis

Slavoj Zizek reaches the parts of the media that other theorists cannot. With sources ranging from Thomas Aquinas to Quentin Tarantino and Desperate Housewives to Dostoyevsky, Zizek mixes high theory with low culture more engagingly than any other thinker alive today. His prolific output includes such media friendly content as a TV series (The Pervert's Guide to Cinema) a documentary movie (Zizek!) and a wealth of YouTube clips. A celebrity academic, he walks the media talk.

About this title

Product Description:

* One of the first volumes in Polity's new Theory and Media series. * Provides a concise introduction to the cult theorist Zizek specifically for students of media and cultural studies. * Examines Zizek's key concepts and themes and their particular implications for the study of the media.

Review:

"An eloquent and compelling insight into the worldview of ?i?ek and his contribution to the fields of medi and cultural analysis ... It is nothing less than a myth-busting exposition of how, in the age of media saturation, we are directed to live and perceive."
Media, Culture & Society

"Ask not for whom theory waits, motionless - it waits for all of us in Paul Taylor's excellent Zizek and the Media."
Media Education Research Journal

"Taylor does a superb job of showing how electrifying and profound the media current that flows through Zizek's work really is."
Joan Copjec, University at Buffalo

"Paul Taylor's Zizek and the Media provides a thorough introduction to the paradoxes and subtleties of Slavoj Zizek's thought, and at the same time it articulates a compelling theory of how the contemporary media functions in unforeseen ways. Taylor's originality derives from his vigilant attention to forms. He is the first to explain fully how the idiosyncratic form in which Zizek presents his philosophy emerges out of its content. And in the process, he grasps what makes Zizek's such a penetrating critique of our media universe. Taylor's book goes beyond being a book about Zizek and becomes one that enacts Zizek's mode of thinking on its readers."
Todd McGowan, University of Vermont

"All jokes aside, this is a seriously serious book. Zizek is one of the most media-savvy of all contemporary philosophers, and medium in the form of the concrete universal is one of his most important concepts. Paul Taylor does a terrific job putting together these two sides of Zizek to produce a provocative parallax view."
Rex Butler, University of Queensland

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 074564368X
• ISBN 13: 9780745643687
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224