Cinema, memory, modernity
Subtitle: the representation of memory from the art film to transnational cinema
By: Russell J. A. Kilbourn
Series: Routledge advances in film studies -- 6; Routledge advances in film studies -- 6.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780415801188
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : cinema, memory, modernity: the return of film as memory; 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.