1st Edition
Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film
By Deborah Lynn Porter
Copyright 2018
262 Pages
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Routledge
262 Pages
26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
262 Pages
26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
Preface
1. New Psychoanalytical Tools for Historical Inquiry
2. Haunted Inheritance: Fantasy as Phantom in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth
3. Uncanny Reunions as Metapsychoanalytical Trope in Andrey Zvagintsev’s The Return
4. Imperial Legacy, Aborted Mourning and the Meaning of Horror in Kim Jee-Woon’s A Tale of Two Sisters
5. The Religious Specter: Identifying the Intruder in Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others
Epilogue
Biography
Deborah Porter is Associate Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, USA
