Ferryman of memories : the films of Rithy Panh / Deirdre Boyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Deirdre, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rithy Panh--Criticism and interpretation.

Rithy Panh.

Genocide in motion pictures.

Documentary films--Cambodia--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Motion pictures.

Cambodia--In motion pictures.

Cambodia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Films of Rithy Panh

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh is an unconventional book about an unconventional filmmaker. Rithy Panh survived the Cambodian genocide and found refuge in France where he discovered in film a language that allowed him to tell what happened to the two million souls who suffered hunger, overwork, disease, and death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. His innovative cinema is made with people, not about them—even those guilty of crimes against humanity. Whether he is directing Isabelle Huppert in The Sea Wall, following laborers digging trenches or interrogating the infamous director of S-21 prison, aesthetics and ethics inform all he does. With remarkable access to the director and his work, Deirdre Boyle introduces readers to Panh’s ground-breaking approach to perpetrator cinema and dazzling critique of colonialism, globalization, and the refugee crisis. Ferryman of Memories reveals the art of one of the masters of world cinema today, focusing on nineteen of his award-winning films, including Rice People, The Land of Wandering Souls, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, and The Missing Picture.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Preface

Prologue

1. Uncle Rithy and the Cambodian Tragedy

2. The Return: Discovering the Gaze

Site 2 (1989)

Souleymane Cissé (1991)

Cambodia, between War and Peace (1992)

Rice People (1994)

3. The Khmer Rouge: Three Years, Eight Months, Twenty-One Days

4. Perpetrators and Survivors: The S-21 Trilogy

Bophana, a Cambodian Tragedy (1996)

S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2002)

Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (2012)

Interlude: Dark Tourism

5. After the Wars: Fiction and Nonfiction

One Evening after the War (1997)

Let the Boat Break, Let the Junk Crack Open (2001)

The Land of Wandering Souls (1999)

Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers (2006)

The People of Angkor (2003)

The Burnt Theater (2005)

6. Colonialism: France and Cambodia

France Is Our Mother Country (2015)

The Sea Wall (2008)

7. Remembering the Past, Mourning the Dead

Farm Catch (2011)

The Missing Picture (2013)

Exile (2016)

Graves without a Name (2018)

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Appendix 1. Confronting Images of Ideology: An Interview with Rithy Panh by Deirdre Boyle

Appendix 2. On a Morality of Filming: A Conversation Between Rithy Panh and Deirdre Boyle

Notes

Films and Books by Rithy Panh

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-9788-1466-6

1-9788-1468-2

OCLC:

1369638589