Biopolitical Media - Catastrophe, Immunity and Bare Life

Informationen zum Autor Allen Meek is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Massey University, New Zealand. He is the author of Trauma and Media (Routledge 2010). He has recent chapters on trauma, catastrophe and biopolitics in The Fourth Eye: Maori Media in Aotearoa (2013) and Film on the Fault Line (2015). Klappentext This book presents an historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics and explains how responses to catastrophe in both media and cultural criticism over the past 150 years are embedded in biological conceptions of life and death, health and illness, and human and non-human species. Zusammenfassung This book presents an historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics and explains how responses to catastrophe in both media and cultural criticism over the past 150 years are embedded in biological conceptions of life and death, health and illness, and human and non-human species. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Biotype and the Anthropological Machine 2. Natural History and Nazi Media 3. Colonial Trauma and the Holocaust 4. The Biopolitical Imagination 5. The Immunity of Empire

Product details

• Authors: Allen Meek, Meek Allen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2018
• EAN: 9781138597938
• ISBN: 978-1-138-59793-8
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Photography & photographs, Media Studies, Europe, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Social & cultural history, ART / Film & Video, ART / Art & Politics, PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism, Political science & theory, Second World War, The Holocaust, Social and cultural history, Political science and theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Art forms, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Photography and photographs, Armed Conflict, The Arts: art forms, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, The arts: general topics