Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Trauma and Media: Theories, Histories, and Images, Book 23, (Hardcover)

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.