Trauma and Media Theories, Histories, and Images |
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| Author:
| Meek, Allen |
| Series title: | Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-80123-2 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2009 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $160.00 |
Book Description:
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In this study, Meek considers how the concept of trauma has informed critical theories of visual media from the 1930s to the present. 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, Meek reconsiders a history of trauma theory as cultural critique that will be of interest to academics and students of visual culture, critical theory and film and media studies.
In this study, Meek considers how the concept of trauma has informed critical theories of visual media from the 1930s to the present. 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, Meek reconsiders a history of trauma theory as cultural critique that will be of interest to academics and students of visual culture, critical theory and film and media studies.