Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219), notes, and index.
Contents:
Introduction: a cryptic history of the cinema -- The crypt-image and the taboo body in the films of Georges Franju -- Mario Bava, the phantom-image, and transgenerational debt -- Anasemic montage and the cinematic interval in Jean-Luc Godard's late cinema -- Re-visions: Naomi Uman and cinematic decryption -- Conclusion: the body under erasure.
Summary:
"Following the Second World War, the world had to confront the unmournable specters of those who had been erased socially and historically. Cinematic Cryptonymies: The Absent Body in Postwar Film explores how cinema addressed these missing bodies through an in-depth analysis of key filmmakers from the immediate postwar moment through the present."--Back cover.
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