Emotional death: the charity advert and photographs of childhood trauma.
This essay will use current and historical advertisements by the British charity Barnardo's to analyse the representation of abused children. In particular, it will focus on the 1999-2003 campaigns to explore the connection between the experience of trauma, death and the photographic image in the co...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Cultural Research Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 271 - 293 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=14910657&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 14910657 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 14797585 QMJ jtl: Journal for Cultural Research issn: 14797585 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jul2004 vid: 8 iid: 3 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 14910657 10.1080/1479758042000264948 ppf: 271 ppct: 22 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 5.4MB tig: atl: Emotional death: the charity advert and photographs of childhood trauma. aug: au: Nunn, Heather su: Emotional trauma in children Abused children Child abuse Representation (Psychoanalysis) Ethics sug: subj: Emotional trauma in children Abused children Child abuse Representation (Psychoanalysis) Ethics ab: This essay will use current and historical advertisements by the British charity Barnardo's to analyse the representation of abused children. In particular, it will focus on the 1999-2003 campaigns to explore the connection between the experience of trauma, death and the photographic image in the context of a first world, Western preoccupation with the spectre of the missing, lost or abused child. It will consider the complex attempt to photographically capture the missing image, to invoke a subjective loss and to conjure up the accompanying wound of trauma. The Barnardo's adverts, like many charity adverts of abuse, attempt to show a traumatic past, that by its very nature as trauma, defeats easy representation. Trauma as an experience produces a crisis of representation. The traumatic event, with its radical disruption of psychic defences, results in an absence or gap in memory, knowledge and recall. The devastating event so overwhelms the senses that it produces a perpetual sense of "belated uncertainty" about "a truth to which there is no simple access" ( Caruth 1995 , p. 6). These photographs attempt to capture the dislocation of time and distortion of identity for the traumatised child. Whilst structurally they can be read for invoking a sense of aura or credibility as testimony, they do so in a digital age when the status of the "truth" of the photograph as evidence is called into doubt ( Robins 1996 ). This dislocation of image from referent can be read for its parallels with the dislocating structures of trauma. As such they raise questions of the ethics of "spectral evidence" in a commercialised charity sector. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal for Cultural Research is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal for Cultural Research holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2004 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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