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Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film

By Tarja Laine

Book information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2023
ISBN
9781793651945, 9781793651952, 1793651949
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4684633 bytes)
Pages
228\229
Time added
2023-12-03 19:00:34

Description

In Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film, Tarja Laine provides insights into how cinema engages its spectator emotionally with the pathology of memory that lies at the heart of trauma. By arguing that cinema communicates the inability to process a traumatic event by means of its aesthetic specificity, Laine demonstrates that traumatic cinema can be an important source of ethical knowledge, both within and beyond the cinematic world. The films discussed in this book do not necessarily narrate trauma but embody that aspect of trauma which resists narrativization. This is why there are modes of affective engagement beyond storytelling by which spectators can meaningfully relate to trauma. Scholars of film studies, media studies, and philosophy will find this book of particular interest.

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