During the past one hundred years or so, the depiction of traumatic historical events and experiences has been a recurrent theme in the work of artists and media professionalsincluding those in literature, theatre, visual art, architecture, cinema, and televisionamong other forms of cultural expression and social communication.The essays collected in this book follow a contemporary critical trend in the field of trauma studies that reflects comparatively on artistic and media representations of traumatic histories and experiences from countries around the world. Focusing on a diversity of art and media formsincluding memorials, literature, visual and installation art, music, video, film, and journalismthey both apply dominant theories of trauma and explore the formers limitations while bearing in mind other possible methodologies.Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives contributes to a critical trauma studies, a field that reinvigorates itself in the twenty-first century through its constant reassessment of the relationship between theory, representation, and global histories of violence and suffering.
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Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
Publication Date: 23 Aug 2010
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781443822831
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Mick Broderick is Associate Professor and Research Coordinator in the School of Media Communication and Culture at Murdoch University Perth Australia where he is also Deputy Director of the National Academy of Screen and Sound (NASS). His major publications include editions of the reference work Nuclear Movies (1988 1991); as editor Hibakusha Cinema (1996 1999); and as co-editor Interrogating Trauma: Arts and Media Responses to Collective Suffering (2010). Broderick is also a screen producer and curator.Antonio Traverso is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of Media Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University Perth Australia. He has published essays on political world cinema and in 2010 co-edited (with Mick Broderick) Interrogating Trauma: Arts and Media Responses to Collective Suffering (Routledge). Traverso has also written directed and produced short experimental and documentary films.
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