Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film

ISBN-13: 9780367593032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str.

Deborah Lynn Porter

Opis

Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film advances a methodological line of inquiry based on a fresh insight into the ways in which cinematic meaning is generated and can be ascertained.

Spis treści

Preface

1. New Psychoanalytical Tools for Historical Inquiry

2. Haunted Inheritance: Fantasy as Phantom in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth

3. Uncanny Reunions as Metapsychoanalytical Trope in Andrey Zvagintsev’s The Return

4. Imperial Legacy, Aborted Mourning and the Meaning of Horror in Kim Jee-Woon’s A Tale of Two Sisters

5. The Religious Specter: Identifying the Intruder in Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others

Epilogue

O autorze

Deborah Porter is Associate Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, USA