Allen Meek

Trauma and Media

Theories, Histories, and Images

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415801232
• ISBN-10: 0415801230
• Artikelnr.: 27381527

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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