Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film (Film and Culture) - Softcover

Buch 6 von 86: Film and Culture

Lowenstein, Adam

 
9780231132473: Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film (Film and Culture)

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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. This book shows that through allegorical representations these directors' films confronted and challenged comforting historical narratives and notions of national identity.

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Adam Lowenstein is associate professor of English and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His essays have appeared in Cinema Journal, Critical Quarterly, and Post Script as well as the anthologies Hitchcock: Past and Future Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations, and British Cinema, Past and Present.

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ISBN 10:  0231132468 ISBN 13:  9780231132466
Verlag: COLUMBIA UNIV PR, 2005
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