Trauma and Media Theories, Histories, and Images - Allen Meek - HBK VGC

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Trauma and MediaTheories, Histories, and Images\nAuthor(s): Allen Meek\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415801232, 978-0415801232\nSynopsis\nThis 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, explaining how contemporary trauma studies emerged from research on Holocaust representation in which the audiovisual testimony of survivors was posed as an authentic alternative to popular television and film dramatizations. It argues that the media coverage of 9/11 and the subsequent war on terror, however, has revealed how the formation of communities of witness and commemoration around traumatic events can perpetuate violence and inequality.\n\nThe book explains how Benjamin, Adorno and Barthes, drawing from psychoanalysis, analyzed the roles of fantasy, ideology and collective identification in mass media, and began to un.