Perpetrator Cinema : Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary / Raya Morag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morag, Raya, Author.

Series:

Nonfictions.

Nonfictions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide in motion pictures.

Cambodia--In motion pictures.

Cambodia.

Cambodia--Politics and government--1975-1979.

Cambodia--History--1975-1979.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films documenting the Holocaust and genocides in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and elsewhere have focused on collecting and foregrounding the testimony of survivors and victims, the intimate horror of the autogenocide enables post–Khmer Rouge Cambodian documentarians to propose a direct confrontation between the first-generation survivor and the perpetrator of genocide. These films break with Western tradition and disrupt the political view that reconciliation is the only legitimate response to atrocities of the past. Rather, transcending the perpetrator’s typical denial or partial confession, this extraordinary form of “duel” documentary creates confrontational tension and opens up the possibility of a transformation in power relations, allowing viewers to access feelings of moral resentment.Raya Morag examines works by Rithy Panh, Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, and Lida Chan and Guillaume Suon, among others, to uncover the ways in which filmmakers endeavor to allow the survivors’ moral status and courage to guide viewers to a new, more complete understanding of the processes of coming to terms with the past. These documentaries show how moral resentment becomes a way to experience, symbolize, judge, and finally incorporate evil into a system of ethics. Morag’s analysis reveals how perpetrator cinema provides new epistemic tools and propels the recent social-cultural-psychological shift from the era of the witness to the era of the perpetrator.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

1. DEFINING PERPETRATOR CINEMA

2. POST– KHMER ROUGE CAMBODIAN CINEMA AND THE BIG PERPETRATORS: RECONCILIATION OR RESENTMENT?

3. PERPETRATORHOOD PARADIGMS: THE DUEL AND MORAL RESENTMENT

4. GENDERED GENOCIDE: THE FEMALE PERPETRATOR, FORCED MARRIAGE, AND RAPE

EPILOGUE: THE ERA OF PERPETRATOR ETHICS

NOTES

FILMOGRAPHY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-231-85117-0

OCLC:

1138676974