Trauma culture : the politics of terror and loss in media and literature

Trauma culture : the politics of terror and loss in media and literature / E. Ann Kaplan.

It may be said that every trauma is two traumas or ten thousand-depending on the number of people involved. How one experiences and reacts to an event is unique and depends largely on one's direct or indirect positioning, personal psychic history, and individual memories. But equally important...

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Egile nagusia: Kaplan, E. Ann
Formatua: eBook
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Gaiak:
1900-1999
Terrorism in motion pictures.
Disaster films > History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Culture in motion pictures.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Culture in motion pictures
Disaster films
Literature, Modern
Psychic trauma in literature
Psychic trauma in motion pictures
Terrorism in motion pictures
Film.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Sarrera elektronikoa:Click for online access
Aurkibidea:
  • Introduction : 9/11 and "disturbing remains"
  • "Why trauma now?" : Freud and trauma studies
  • Memory as testimony in World War II : Freud, Duras, and Kofman
  • Melodrama and trauma : displacement in Hitchcock's Spellbound
  • Vicarious trauma and "empty" empathy : media images of Rwanda and the Iraq War
  • "Translating" trauma in postcolonial contexts : indigeneity on film
  • The ethics of witnessing : Maya Deren and Tracey Moffatt
  • Epilogue : "Wounded New York" : rebuilding and memorials to 9/11.

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