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: Children’s Trauma and Bosnian War Cinema.Dijana Jelaca.-3. Conferring Visibility on Trauma within Rwanda’s National Reconciliation: Kivu Ruhorahoza’s 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 Coixet’s 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. Trauma’s slow onslaught: Sound and Silence in Lav Diaz’s Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012).Nadin Mai.-9. Flesh and Blood in the
Globalized Age: Pablo Trapero’s Nacido y criado/Born and Bred (2006) and Carancho/The Vulture (2010).Fiona Clancy.-10. Unclaimed Experience and the Implicated Subject in Pablo Larraín’s Post Mortem.Amit Thakkar.-11. Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, 2007) telling tales of trauma.Steven Allen"Scars and Wounds is an outstanding contribution to an understanding of the causes and effects of trauma. With case studies including films made in Algeria, Bosnia, Rwanda, Chile and the USA, documentaries and fictional narratives, mainstream and low-budget productions, it perfectly balances historical research with discussion of the means filmmakers use to give shape to events that tear the tissue of individual and collective bodies. It demonstrates that trauma, even if resulting from natural disasters, is always imbricated with politics, including class and gender politics." (Prof. Ewa Mazierska, Professor of Contemporary Cinema, School of Humanities and Social Sciences , UCLAN, UK)
Nick Hodgin is Lecturer in German at the University of Sheffield,
UK. He has published widely on German cinema
including Screening the East: Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in
German Cinema (2011) and the co-edited volume, The GDR
Remembered(2011), as well as on international film, documentary
film, and cultural studies.
Amit Thakkar is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Lancaster
University, UK. He has co-edited special issues of journals on
masculinities and violence in Latin America, one of which was
selected for Routledge’s Special Issues as Books series. He has
also published articles on crash cinemas in Latin American
film.
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