Trauma and Media - Theories, Histories, and Images

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Allen Meek is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Massey University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Allen Meek, Allen (Massey University Meek, Meek Allen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2014
• EAN: 9781138774872
• ISBN: 978-1-138-77487-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism, PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism