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Author:

Kaplan, E. Ann.

Title:

Trauma culture : the politics of terror and loss in media and literature / E. Ann Kaplan.

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

viii, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Terrorism in motion pictures.
Disaster films--History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
Culture in motion pictures.
Terrorisme.
Rampenfilms.
Literaire thema's.
Trauma's (psychologie)
Terrorisme au cinéma.
Films-catastrophes--Histoire et critique.
Traumatisme psychique au cinéma.
Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.
Littérature--20e siècle--Histoire et critique.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-179) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : 9/11 and "disturbing remains" -- "Why trauma now?" : Freud and trauma studies -- Memory as testimony in World War II : Freud, Duras, and Kofman -- Melodrama and trauma : displacement in Hitchcock's Spellbound -- Vicarious trauma and "empty" empathy : media images of Rwanda and the Iraq War -- "Translating" trauma in postcolonial contexts : indigeneity on film -- The ethics of witnessing : Maya Deren and Tracey Moffatt -- Epilogue : "Wounded New York" : rebuilding and memorials to 9/11.

ISBN:

9780813535913 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813535913 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813535906 (alk. paper)
0813535905 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2004023482

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)