Revisioning war trauma in cinema : uncoming communities / Jessica Datema and Manya Steinkoler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Datema, Jessica, author.

Steinkoler, Manya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War films--History and criticism.

War films.

Psychic trauma in motion pictures.

Suffering in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

Summary:

Revisioning War Trauma in Cinema: Uncoming Communities uses philosophy and critical theory to examine films that participate in debates concerning trauma and representation. This book reflects upon films that invent--rather than represent--the moment history breaks down. Jessica Datema and Manya Steinkoler propose a twenty-first-century way forward across problems of trauma, inheritance, and representation into exceptional communities of artistic invention.

Contents:

Introduction: cinema of the unbecoming

Writing war reporting flesh anonyma: A woman in Berlin

Belonging is uncanny: Wakolda, or The German doctor

Phoenix: the after-death

Austrisized: Woman in gold

Music as the last word: The lives of others

Hannah Arendt: revisioning pariahdom in dark times

Gasping for death: László Nemes' Son of Saul

Coppola's Beguiled: a history detox

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-9298-8