Binding: Paperback
Description: This book explores how traumatic experiences of impingement and neglect in childhood and adulthood and at both the family and the state level may create a desire in us to be parented by certain kinds of screen media that we unconsciously believe are watching over us when nothing else seems to be. Andrew Asibong explores how viewers make psychical use of eerily moving images observed in film and television and later taken into an already traumatised mind in order to facilitate some form of reparation for a stolen experience of caregiving. It explores the possibility of a media - based working through of both the general traumas of early environmental failure and the particular traumas of viewers racialised as Black eventually asking how politicised film groups in the age of Black Lives Matter might heal from a troubled past and prepare for an uncertain future through the spontaneous discussion in the here and now of enlivening images of potentially deadly vulnerability. Post - traumatic Attachments to the Eerily Moving Image: Something to Watch Over Me will be of great interest to academics and students of film media and television studies trauma studies and psychoanalysis culture race and ethnicity.
Title: Post - Traumatic Attachments To The Eerily Moving Image Something To Watch Over Me
Author(s): Asibong Andrew
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032027883
Pages: 178 Pages, 13 Halftones, Black And White; 13 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 9/30/2021
Series: The Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture Series
Category: Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology)