Trauma Culture : The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaplan, E. Ann
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Film.
Terrorism in motion pictures.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Literature, Modern.
Disaster films.
Culture in motion pictures.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
Litterature > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Terrorisme au cinema.
Culture au cinema.
Traumatisme psychique dans la litterature.
Traumatisme psychique au cinema.
Films-catastrophes > Histoire et critique.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Disaster films > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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