The horrors of trauma in cinema : violence void visualization / edited by Michael Elm, Kobi Kabalek and Julia B. Köhne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elm, Michael, editor.

Kabalek, Kobi, editor.

Köhne, Julia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma in motion pictures--Congresses.

Psychic trauma in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores the multifaceted depiction and staging of historical and social traumata as the result of extreme violence within national contexts. It focuses on Israeli-Palestinian, German and (US) American film, and reaches out to cinematic traditions from other countries like France, Great Britain and the former USSR. International and interdisciplinary scholars analyze both mainstream and avant-garde movies and documentaries premiering from the 1960's to the present. From transnation...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION;

Notes:

"Product of the international interdisciplinary conference, "The horrors of trauma: violence, re-enactment, nation, and film," that took place at Ben-Gurion Univesity of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel, in May 2012."

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 15, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6851-5

OCLC:

892799118