Book DescriptionThis volume addresses the relation of trauma to transnational modern mass media The first of its kind, Trauma and Cinema provides ten essays which explore the ways trauma works itself out in images in (and as) film, photography, and video, as media in global cultural flows The focus of the volume on the matrix of trauma, visual media ожхчт and modernity seeks to engage and go beyond current tendencies in trauma studies The book discusses how trauma presented in the media spills over nationalboundaries and can be found in images across divergent cultures in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and America From the Holocaust to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, from Taiwan's colonial experience to the catastrophe of Hiroshima, from the attempted annihilation of Australian Aborigines to attempted reconciliation in South Africa, these essays offer the reader a plethora of images of trauma for comparison and contrast.  Художник:2004 г 282 стр ISBN 9622096247.