Trauma cinema : documenting incest and the Holocaust /

Trauma Cinema focuses on a new breed of documentary films and videos that adopt catastrophe as their subject matter and trauma as their aesthetic. Incorporating oral testimony, home-movie footage, and documentary reenactment, these documentaries express the havoc trauma wreaks on history and memory....

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Autor Principal: Walker, Janet, 1955-
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2005.
Acceso en liña:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501082
Table of Contents:
  • Catastrophe, representation, and the vicissitudes of memory
  • The excision of incest from classical Hollywood cinema
  • Incest on television and the burden of proof
  • Strange bedfellows : incest in trauma documentaries
  • The last days is not Shoah : experiments in Holocaust representation
  • Disremembering the Holocaust.