Trauma cinema
Subtitle: documenting incest and the Holocaust
By: Janet Walker.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Documentary films -- History and criticism; Documentary films -- History and criticism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures; Incest in motion pictures; Psychic trauma in motion pictures; Memory
Description: 'Trauma Cinema' focuses on a new breed of documentary films that adopt catastrophe as their subject matter & trauma as their aesthetic. Walker uses incest & the Holocaust as a double thematic focus & fiction films as a point of comparison.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index.
Video/Filmography: p. 237-240.
Table of contents: title: Catastrophe, representation, and the vicissitudes of memory; title: The excision of incest from classical Hollywood cinema; title: Incest on television and the burden of proof; title: Strange bedfellows : incest in trauma documentaries; title: The last days is not Shoah : experiments in Holocaust representation; title: Disremembering the Holocaust.