Theories, histories and images -- Photography and unconscious optics -- Critical theory, mass culture and film -- Barthes : the traumatic image and the media code -- After Auschwitz : a community of witness -- Virtual trauma : after 9/11
Summary
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, looking at how the psychoanalytic theory of trauma was adapted by the cultural critics Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and Slavoj Zizek
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index
