ISBN:
9780415876889
,
0415876885
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 206 S
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. publ.
Year of publication:
2011
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in film studies 8
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in film studies
DDC:
791.43/653
Keywords:
War films History and criticism
;
Arab-Israeli conflict Motion pictures and the conflict
;
Psychic trauma in motion pictures
;
Suffering in motion pictures
;
Nationalism in motion pictures
;
Motion pictures
;
Israel
;
Loss (Psychology) in motion pictures
;
Psychic trauma in motion pictures
;
Israel
;
Film
;
Verlust
;
Trauma
Abstract:
Introduction -- Specters of war. Ruptures of history : trauma, memory and the archive in Beaufort -- Spectacles of pain : war, trauma and male masochism in Kippur -- Trauma and ethnicity. Restaging the primal scene : melancholia and ethnicity in Cinema Egypt and Desperado Square -- Recycled wounds : trauma, gender and ethnicity in Or, my treasure -- Sexuality and loss. The national closet : trauma, loss and sex in Yossi and Jagger -- Phantasmatic losses : national traumas, masculinity and the primal fantasy in Walk on water -- Trauma and ethics. The identity of the victim : trauma and responsibility in Beaufort, Lebanon, Waltz with Bashir and Forgiveness
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Specters of war. Ruptures of history : trauma, memory and the archive in Beaufort -- Spectacles of pain : war, trauma and male masochism in Kippur -- Trauma and ethnicity. Restaging the primal scene : melancholia and ethnicity in Cinema Egypt and Desperado Square -- Recycled wounds : trauma, gender and ethnicity in Or, my treasure -- Sexuality and loss. The national closet : trauma, loss and sex in Yossi and Jagger -- Phantasmatic losses : national traumas, masculinity and the primal fantasy in Walk on water -- Trauma and ethics. The identity of the victim : trauma and responsibility in Beaufort, Lebanon, Waltz with Bashir and Forgiveness.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index -- Includes filmography
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