Trauma Cinema

Documenting Incest and the Holocaust

Janet Walker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

273 Seiten

2005
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-24175-6 (ISBN)

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Trauma Cinema focuses on a new breed of documentary films and videos that adopt catastrophe as their subject matter and trauma as their aesthetic. Incorporating oral testimony, home-movie footage, and documentary reenactment, these documentaries express the havoc trauma wreaks on history and memory. Janet Walker uses incest and the Holocaust as a double thematic focus and fiction films as a point of comparison. Her astute and original examination considers the Hollywood classic Kings Row and the television movie Sybil in relation to vanguard nonfiction works, including Errol Morris's Mr. Death, Lynn Hershman's video diaries, and the chilling genealogy of incest, Just, Melvin. Both incest and the Holocaust have also been featured in contemporary psychological literature on trauma and memory. The author employs theories of post traumatic stress disorder and histories of the so-called memory wars to illuminate the amnesias, fantasies, and mistakes in memory that must be taken into account, along with corroborated evidence, if we are to understand how personal and public historical meaning is made.
Janet Walker's engrossing narrative demonstrates that the past does not come down to us purely and simply through eyewitness accounts and tangible artifacts. Her incisive analysis exposes the frailty of memory in the face of disquieting events while her joint consideration of trauma cinema and psychological theorizing radically reconstructs the roadblocks at the intersection of catastrophe, memory, and historical representation.

Janet Walker is Professor of Film Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is also affiliated with the Women's Studies Program. Her other books as author or editor are Couching Resistance: Women, Film, and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry (1993), Feminism and Documentary (with Diane Waldman, 1999), and Westerns: Films through History (2001).

Acknowledgments Preface PART I. THE TRAUMATIC PARADOX Chapter 1. Catastrophe, Representation, and the Vicissitudes of Memory PART II. PERSONAL MEMORY: THE CASE OF INCEST Chapter 2. The Excision of Incest from Classical Hollywood Cinema: Kings Row and Freud Chapter 3. Incest on Television and the Burden of Proof: Sybil; Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story; Liar, Liar; and Divided Memories Chapter 4. Strange Bedfellows--Incest in Trauma Documentaries: Daughter Rite; Some Nudity Required; the Electronic Diary Series; Just, Melvin; and Capturing the Friedmans PART III. THE PERSONAL IS PUBLIC HISTORICAL: (AUTO)BIOGRAPHIES OF THE HOLOCAUST Chapter 5. The Last Days Is Not Shoah--Experiments in Holocaust Representation: The March and Tak for Alt Chapter 6. Disremembering the Holocaust: Everything's for You, Second Generation Video, and Mr. Death Conclusion Notes Bibliography Video/Filmography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.4.2005
Zusatzinfo	10 b-w photographs
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-24175-4 / 0520241754
ISBN-13	978-0-520-24175-6 / 9780520241756
Zustand	Neuware