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UNINA9910455353703321 |
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Autore |
Meek Allen <1961-, > |
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Titolo |
Trauma and media : theories, histories, and images / / Allen Meek |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-17865-8 |
1-135-17866-6 |
1-282-37675-6 |
9786612376757 |
0-203-86319-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; ; 23 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Psychic trauma and mass media |
Collective memory |
Mass media - Psychological aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Theories, Histories and Images; 2 Photography and Unconscious Optics; 3 Critical Theory, Mass Culture and Film; 4 Barthes: The Traumatic Image and the Media Code; 5 After Auschwitz: A Community of Witness; 6 Virtual Trauma: After 9/11; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This 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 ineq |
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