Trauma and Media - Theories, Histories, and Images

Informationen zum Autor Allen Meek is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Massey University. Klappentext This book provides the first comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, from Freud to the present day, looking at how the psychoanalytic theory of trauma was adapted by the cultural critics Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and Slavoj Zizek. Zusammenfassung This book provides the first comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, from Freud to the present day, looking at how the psychoanalytic theory of trauma was adapted by the cultural critics Walter Benjamin,Theodor Adorno, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and Slavoj Zizek. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Theories, Histories and Images 2: Photography and Unconscious Optics 3: Critical Theory, Mass Culture and Film 4: Barthes: The Traumatic Image and the Media Code 5: After Auschwitz: A Community of Witness 6: Virtual Trauma: After 9/11 Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Allen Meek, Allen (Massey University Meek, Meek Allen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2009
• EAN: 9780415801232
• ISBN: 978-0-415-80123-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis