Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film

• Main Author: Porter, Deborah Lynn (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Routledge 2018
• Series: Routledge advances in film studies 58
• Subjects: Psychic trauma in motion pictures; Motion pictures and transnationalism; Collective memory and motion pictures
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• Physical Description: x, 247 pages : illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780815371755

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. Premised on a critical reading strategy informed by a metapsychology of secrets, the book features analyses of internationally acclaimed films--Guillermo del Torro's Pan's Labyrinth, Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return, Jee-woon Kim's A Tale of Two Sisters, and Alejandro Amen©Øabar's The Others. It demonstrates how a rethinking of the figure of the secret in national film yields a new vantage point for examining heretofore unrecognized connections between collective historical experience, cinematic production and a transnational aesthetic of concealment and hiding."--