Trauma and cinema: cross-cultural explorations
Hong Kong:
Hong Kong University Press
(2004), 288 pp., index
ISBN 978-962-209-979-1
Contents
Introduction: From Traumatic Paralysis to the Force Field of Modernity / E. Ann Kaplan and Ban Wang, 1
I. TRAUMA AND CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
1 This is My History: Trauma, Testimony, and Nation-Building in the 'New' South Africa / Sarah L. Lincoln, 25
2 Traumatic Contact Zones and Embodied Translators: With Reference to Select Australian Texts / E. Ann Kaplan, 45
3 A World of Sadness? / Robert Chi, 65
II. SCREENING WAR AND TERROR
4 Post-traumatic Cinema and the Holocaust Documentary / Joshua Hirsch, 93
5 The Vicissitudes of Traumatic Memory and the Postmodern History Film / Janet Walker, 123
6 Allegorizing Hiroshima / Shindo Kaneto's Onibaba as Trauma Text / Adam Lowenstein, 145
III. TRAUMATIC MEMORY, NARRATIVE, AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY
7 Hiroshima, mon amour, Trauma, and the Sublime / Andrew Slade, 165
8 Encountering Paralysis: Disability, Trauma and Narrative / Petra Kuppers, 183
9 To Live: The Survival Philosophy of the Traumatized / Zhaohui Xiong, 203
10 Trauma, Visuality, and History in Chinese Literature and Film / Ban Wang, 217
I. TRAUMA AND CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
1 This is My History: Trauma, Testimony, and Nation-Building in the 'New' South Africa / Sarah L. Lincoln, 25
2 Traumatic Contact Zones and Embodied Translators: With Reference to Select Australian Texts / E. Ann Kaplan, 45
3 A World of Sadness? / Robert Chi, 65
II. SCREENING WAR AND TERROR
4 Post-traumatic Cinema and the Holocaust Documentary / Joshua Hirsch, 93
5 The Vicissitudes of Traumatic Memory and the Postmodern History Film / Janet Walker, 123
6 Allegorizing Hiroshima / Shindo Kaneto's Onibaba as Trauma Text / Adam Lowenstein, 145
III. TRAUMATIC MEMORY, NARRATIVE, AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY
7 Hiroshima, mon amour, Trauma, and the Sublime / Andrew Slade, 165
8 Encountering Paralysis: Disability, Trauma and Narrative / Petra Kuppers, 183
9 To Live: The Survival Philosophy of the Traumatized / Zhaohui Xiong, 203
10 Trauma, Visuality, and History in Chinese Literature and Film / Ban Wang, 217
