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1 online resource (270 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Table of Contents ; Introduction: Making Experience Speak; 1. Yaël Hersonski's A Film Unfinished ; 2. Andrzej Wajda's Katyn ; 3. Andrei Konchalovsky's Siberiade ; 4. Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent ; 5. Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light ; 6. Rithy Panh's S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine ; 7. Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index. |
| Summary |
In Unspeakable Histories, William Guynn focuses on the sensation of encountering past events through film. Film is capable, he argues, of triggering moments of heightened awareness in which the barrier between the past and the present can fall and the reality of the past we thought lost can be momentarily rediscovered in its material being. In his readings of seven exceptional works depicting twentieth century atrocities, Guynn explores the emotional resonance that still adheres to traumatic historical events. Guynn considers dimensions of experience that historiography leaves untouched. Yaël. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Historical films -- History and criticism.
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Historical films. |
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Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
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Psychic trauma in motion pictures. |
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Catastrophical, The, in motion pictures.
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Catastrophical, The, in motion pictures. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Guynn, William. Unspeakable Histories : Film and the Experience of Catastrophe. La Vergne : Columbia University Press, ©2016 9780231177979 |
| ISBN |
9780231541961 (electronic book) |
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0231541961 (electronic book) |
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