This book may be of interest to list members. See attached flyer for ordering information. Apologies for cross posting. Trauma and Media: Theories, Histories and Images 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 inequality. 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 a defining feature of modern experience. 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. About the Author: Allen Meek is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Massey University. Table of 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 www.routledge.com/media Please visit us at www.routledge.com/media Examination Copies We offer a 60-day examination period to academics. The book will be accompanied by an invoice which requires payment in 60 days from the date on the invoice. If you adopt 10 or more copies of the title for your course, the examination copy is yours for free. Return the invoice with course information and the purchase order number provided by your bookstore. If you wish to keep the book but do not wish to adopt it, please pay the amount shown on the invoice, or return the book to us and the invoice will be cancelled. To order an examination copy, please mail or fax this form or request on department letterhead, including the following information: professor's name, course name and number, expected enrollment, decision date, and the reference number at the bottom of this form. Please allow up to four weeks for delivery. You may also complete the form online at www.routledge.com/examcopy ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu