Cinema, memory, modernity
Subtitle: the representation of memory from the art film to transnational cinema
By: by Russell J. A. Kilbourn.
Series: Routledge advances in film studies -- 6
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780415801188
Subjects: Memory in motion pictures; Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures; Philosophy in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : cinema, memory, modernity: the return of memory as film; title: No escape from time : memory and redemption in the international postwar art film; title: The "crisis" of memory : "traumatic identity" in the contemporary memory film; title: "Global memory" : cinema as lingua franca and the commodification of the image; title: The eye of history : memory, surveillance and ethicality in the contemporary art film; title: "Prosthetic memory" and transnational cinema : globalized identity and narrative recursivity in City of God; title: Conclusion: remembering to forget: the catachreses of modernity.