Youth Fantasies: The Perverse Landscape of the Media

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.

• Introduction: Youth Identity and Fantasy Formation Violence and Generation X: How the New Right is Managing the 'Moral Panic' through Television and Teen Films The National 'Thing': Reception of Western Television by Select Tanzanian Youth Fantasies of Media Consumerism Among Select Privileged Youth Youth Fantasies: The X-Files Taxi Orange: The Fantasy of Provincialism and Communitarianism within Globalization 'Youthful' Computer Games: The Lara Croft Phenomenon Conclusion: Are the Kids Alright?

'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