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Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust
Janet Walker
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Description for Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust
Paperback. Num Pages: 273 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFFE2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
Number of Pages
273
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520241756
SKU
V9780520241756
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About Janet Walker
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).
Reviews for Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust
"A well-researched, elegantly written and original book. Walker offers extremely nuanced and insightful readings that call on her expertise as film historian, feminist theorist and psychoanalytic scholar. The breadth of the book's reach will expand the vernacular of documentary studies in a most significant way." - Michael Renov, author of The Subject of Documentary"