{"product_id":"trauma-and-media-allen-meek-9780415801232","title":"Trauma and Media: Theories, Histories, and Images","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 understand trauma as an authentic experience of modernity. It proposes that the insights of these earlier theorists, along with more recent arguments by Derrida, Agamben and Zizek, continue to provide important perspectives on today's politics of mediated shock and terror.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Allen Meek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415801230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415801232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2010","brand":"Allen Meek","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136116568319,"sku":"9780415801232","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1dad9a2f-e0b8-4be8-a9f2-6317c4662c93.jpg?v=1770160621","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/trauma-and-media-allen-meek-9780415801232","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}