Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press (2004), 288 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 978-962-209-979-1
"The book discusses how trauma presented in the media spills over national boundaries and can be found in images across divergent cultures in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and America." (Publisher description)
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
