Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film

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by Deborah Lynn Porter

Type

Studies

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

sociology, trauma, global

Publishing date

2020

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Advances in Film Studies

1st publishing

2018

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 262 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-367-59303-2

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Book Presentation:
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 Amenábar’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.

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

See the publisher website: Routledge