Understanding Zizek: Jaws & Capitalist Ideology

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.

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Reading List:

Sean Homer's Introduction to Lacan is very accessible:
https://goo.gl/Bcy4w3

Jodi Dean - Zizek's Politics - is a good introduction to Zizek:
https://goo.gl/idATZV

Slavoj Zizek - The Sublime Object
https://goo.gl/xffKfj

Credits:

Image of Zizek by Andy Miah
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/25272992@N00/2340905187

Edited by Lewis Waller

Music:

Chris Zabriskie - Divider
(Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0))

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