What makes Jaws so good? In this video, I undertake a Zizekian interpretation of Jaws. I argue that Jaws is capitalist propaganda in its simplest sense.
Zizek argues, through the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan, that ideology has the same structure as the mind - ideology maps itself onto the mind to make sense of the world. Jaws - a groundbreaking film in 1975 - might just be one of the best pop culture examples of this working in a subtle way - the ideological mirrors the personal, and the personal mirrors the ideological.
Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: patreon.com/use...
Facebook: thethenan...
Instagram: / thethenandnow
Twitter: / lewlewwaller
Reading List:
Sean Homer's Introduction to Lacan is very accessible:
goo.gl/Bcy4w3
Jodi Dean - Zizek's Politics - is a good introduction to Zizek:
goo.gl/idATZV
Slavoj Zizek - The Sublime Object
goo.gl/xffKfj
Credits:
Image of Zizek by Andy Miah
(Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) - creativecommon...)
www.flickr.com...
Edited by Lewis Waller
Music:
Chris Zabriskie - Divider
(Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0))
29 сен 2024