Shocking Representation

Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film

Autor: Adam Lowenstein

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Editura: Columbia University Press

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In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking h...

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Autor

Adam Lowenstein

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2005

Pagini

272

EAN

9780231132466

ISBN

0231132468

Enbook ID

04558174

Editura

Columbia University Press

Greutate

486

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 20

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In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju, Michael Powell, Shindo Kaneto, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg. He shows that through allegorical representations these directors' films confronted and challenged comforting historical narratives and notions of national identity intended to soothe public anxieties in the aftermath of national traumas. Borrowing elements from art cinema and the horror genre, these directors disrupted the boundaries between high and low cinema. Lowenstein contrasts their works, often dismissed by contemporary critics, with the films of acclaimed "New Wave" directors in France, England, Japan, and the United States. He argues that these "New Wave" films, which were embraced as both art and national cinema, often upheld conventional ideas of nation, history, gender, and class questioned by the horror films. By fusing film studies with the emerging field of trauma studies, and drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin, Adam Lowenstein offers a bold reassessment of the modern horror film and the idea of national cinema.

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