Shocking Representation : Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowenstein, Adam.

Series:

Film and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--History and criticism.

Motion pictures and history.

Horror films.

Local Subjects:

Horror films--History and criticism.

Motion pictures and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju, Michael Powell, Shindo Kaneto, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg. He shows that through allegorical representations these directors' films confronted and challenged comforting historical narratives and notions of national identity intended to soothe public anxieties in the aftermat

Contents:

Contents; Lists of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Allegorical Moment; Chapter 1: France; History Without A Face: Surrealism, Modernity, and Holocaust in the Cinama of Georges Franju; Chapter 2: Britain; ""Direct Emotional Realism"": The People's War, Classlessness, and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom; Chapter 3: Japan; Unmasking Hiroshima: Demons, Human Beings, and Shindo Kaneto's Onibaba; Chapter 4: United States; ""Only A Movie"": Specters of Vietnam in Wes Craven's Last House on the Left; Chapter 5: Canada; Trama and Nation Made Flesh: David Cronenberg and the Foundations

Afterword: 9/11/2001, Ground ZeroNotes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613008343

9780231507189

0231507186

9781283008341

1283008343

OCLC:

64274726