Allen Meek: 2 books

Book cover of Trauma and Media

Trauma and Media

Theories, Histories, and Images

by Allen Meek
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011

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...
Book cover of Biopolitical Media

Biopolitical Media

Catastrophe, Immunity and Bare Life

by Allen Meek
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

This book presents an historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics in the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri and others. It explains how responses to catastrophe in media and cultural criticism over the past 150 years are...
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