Scars and Wounds Film and Legacies of Trauma [Hardcover]

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 argue that the healing processes associated with such legacies can helpfully be studied through the idiom of scar-formation rather than event-centred wound-creation.

Introduction: Trauma Studies and the Scar Motif.Nick Hodgin and Amit Thakkar.-1.?Trauma in Recent Algerian documentary Cinema: stories of civil conflict told by the living dead.Guy Austin.-2. ?Elusive Figures: Childrens Trauma and Bosnian War Cinema.Dijana Jelaca.-3.?Conferring Visibility on Trauma within Rwandas National Reconciliation: Kivu Ruhorahozas Disturbing and Salutary Camera.Alexandre Dauge-Roth.-4. Proximity and distance: approaching trauma in Katrina films.Nick Hodgin.-5.?Our Long National Nightmare Is Over: the resolution of trauma and male melodrama in The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011).Brian Baker.-6. Listening to the Pain of Others: Isabel Coixets The Secret Life of Words (2005).Erin K. Hogan.-7. ?Australian Postcolonial Trauma and Silences in Samson and Delilah (Warwick Thornton, 2009).Ben Gook.-8.?Traumas slow onslaught: Sound and Silence in Lav Diazs Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012).Nadin Mai.-9.?Flesh and Blood in the

Globalized Age: Pablo Traperos Nacido y criado/Born and Bred (2006) and Carancho/The Vul³&