Unspeakable Histories : Film and the Experience of Catastrophe.
In Unspeakable Histories, William Guynn focuses on the sensation of encountering past events through film. Film is capable, he argues, of triggering moments of heightened awareness in which the barrier between the past and the present can fall and the reality of the past we thought lost can be momen...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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La Vergne :
Columbia University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Film and culture.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1341932 |
Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents ; Introduction: Making Experience Speak; 1. Yaël Hersonski's A Film Unfinished ; 2. Andrzej Wajda's Katyn ; 3. Andrei Konchalovsky's Siberiade ; 4. Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent ; 5. Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light ; 6. Rithy Panh's S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine ; 7. Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.