A systematic examination of the relationship between post-Marxist discourse theory and media studies. This volume interrogates discourse theory -- as read via the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe -- through an engagement with major approaches to critical media politics …
Few phenomena are as formative of our experience of the visual world as displays of suffering. But what does it mean to have an ethical experience of disturbing or traumatizing images? What kind of ethical proposition does an image of pain mobilize? How may the spectator learn f…
Indhold: Sowing the seeds of revolution ; Turning America against the sins of slavery ; Slowing the Momentum for women's rights ; Attacking municipal corruption ; Pushing America toward an international War ; Achieving reform by Muckraking ; Defying the Ku Klux Klan ; Spreading …
In Trauma Culture, E. Ann Kaplan explores the relationship between the impact of trauma on individuals and on entire cultures and nations. Arguing that humans possess a need to draw meaning from personal experience and to communicate what happens to others, she examines the form…
Liberal democracies have always accepted the need to go to war, despite the fact that war can undermine liberal values. Wars may be won or lost, not only on the battlefield, but in the perceptions of the publics who pay for them. Presentation is therefore increasingly important.…
The author argues that liveness is the product of a dynamic interaction between media institutions, technologies and users. In doing so, she challenges earlier conceptions of the notion, which tended to focus on either one of these contributors to its construction. By analyzing …
