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Scars and Wounds: Film and Legacies of Trauma
Nick Hodgin (Ed.)
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Description for Scars and Wounds: Film and Legacies of Trauma
Hardback. Editor(s): Thakkar, Amit; Hodgin, Nick. Num Pages: 289 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 17 colour illustrations, 21 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; GTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book examines recent cinematic representations of the traumatic legacies of national and international events and processes. Whilst not ignoring European and Hollywood cinema, it includes studies of films about countries which have been less well-represented in cinematic trauma studies, including Australia, Rwanda, Chile and Iran. Each essay establishes national and international contexts that are relevant to the films considered. All essays also deal with form, whether this means the use of specific techniques to represent certain aspects of trauma or challenges to certain genre conventions to make them more adaptable to the traumatic legacies addressed by directors. The editors ... Read more
This book examines recent cinematic representations of the traumatic legacies of national and international events and processes. Whilst not ignoring European and Hollywood cinema, it includes studies of films about countries which have been less well-represented in cinematic trauma studies, including Australia, Rwanda, Chile and Iran. Each essay establishes national and international contexts that are relevant to the films considered. All essays also deal with form, whether this means the use of specific techniques to represent certain aspects of trauma or challenges to certain genre conventions to make them more adaptable to the traumatic legacies addressed by directors. The editors ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
299
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319410234
SKU
V9783319410234
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99-15
About Nick Hodgin (Ed.)
Nick Hodgin is Lecturer in German at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has published widely on German cinema including Screening the East: Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Cinema (2011) and the co-edited volume, The GDR Remembered(2011), as well as on international film, documentary film, and cultural studies. Amit Thakkar is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies ... Read more
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