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.
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- Explores the impact of traumatic experiences on media consumption.
- Investigates the concept of media-based reparation for caregiving losses.
- Considers the traumas faced by viewers racialised as Black.
- Engages with the potential for healing through discussion of media in the context of Black Lives Matter.
- Relevant for academics and students across multiple disciplines.
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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.
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