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Trauma and Media: Theories, Histories, Images
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Trauma and Media: Theories, Histories, Images
Current price: $54.95
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Trauma and Media: Theories, Histories, Images
Current price: $54.95
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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.