The 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.
The 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.

Trauma and Media: Theories, Histories, and Images
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Trauma and Media: Theories, Histories, and Images
232Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781138774872 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 03/27/2014 |
Series: | Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies |
Pages: | 232 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |