Mourning Films

Author : Richard Armstrong
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786493142

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The first in-depth study of its subject, this book seeks to account for a type of modernist film that revolves around bereavement. Identifying the roots of the genre in classical melodrama and horror cinema, and tracing perennial themes and aesthetic devices through to the European and American "intellectual melodramas" of the postwar decades, the book provides a taxonomy of characteristics. In the course of detailed case studies, the book deploys the film theory of Gilles Deleuze and Daniel Frampton while making use of Freudian psychoanalysis and present-day grief counseling theory. In making its case for the new genre, the book reflects upon the ways in which the very notion of genre has, in the post-classical period, responded to changing exhibition patterns, the rise of domestic spectatorship and the proliferation of Web-based film literature.

Author : Richard Armstrong
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786466993

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Mourning Films by Richard Armstrong Pdf

The first in-depth study of its subject, this book seeks to account for a type of modernist film that revolves around bereavement. Identifying the roots of the genre in classical melodrama and horror cinema, and tracing perennial themes and aesthetic devices through to the European and American "intellectual melodramas" of the postwar decades, the book provides a taxonomy of characteristics. In the course of detailed case studies, the book deploys the film theory of Gilles Deleuze and Daniel Frampton while making use of Freudian psychoanalysis and present-day grief counseling theory. In making its case for the new genre, the book reflects upon the ways in which the very notion of genre has, in the post-classical period, responded to changing exhibition patterns, the rise of domestic spectatorship and the proliferation of Web-based film literature.

Author : Bhaskar Sarkar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822392217

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Mourning the Nation by Bhaskar Sarkar Pdf

What remains of the “national” when the nation unravels at the birth of the independent state? The political truncation of India at the end of British colonial rule in 1947 led to a social cataclysm in which roughly one million people died and ten to twelve million were displaced. Combining film studies, trauma theory, and South Asian cultural history, Bhaskar Sarkar follows the shifting traces of this event in Indian cinema over the next six decades. He argues that Partition remains a wound in the collective psyche of South Asia and that its representation on screen enables forms of historical engagement that are largely opaque to standard historiography. Sarkar tracks the initial reticence to engage with the trauma of 1947 and the subsequent emergence of a strong Partition discourse, revealing both the silence and the eventual “return of the repressed” as strands of one complex process. Connecting the relative silence of the early decades after Partition to a project of postcolonial nation-building and to trauma’s disjunctive temporal structure, Sarkar develops an allegorical reading of the silence as a form of mourning. He relates the proliferation of explicit Partition narratives in films made since the mid-1980s to disillusionment with post-independence achievements, and he discusses how current cinematic memorializations of 1947 are influenced by economic liberalization and the rise of a Hindu-chauvinist nationalism. Traversing Hindi and Bengali commercial cinema, art cinema, and television, Sarkar provides a history of Indian cinema that interrogates the national (a central category organizing cinema studies) and participates in a wider process of mourning the modernist promises of the nation form.

Author : Alessia Ricciardi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804747776

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The Ends of Mourning by Alessia Ricciardi Pdf

The Ends of Mourning explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the contemporary crisis of mourning. In an age skeptical of history and memory, we relate to the past only as a spectacle, a product to be consumed in the cultural marketplace. The book charts the emergence and development of the problem of mourning in the writings of Freud, Proust, and Freud's successor Lacan. Freud's idea of "sorrow work" and Proust's concept of involuntary memory defined the terms of the classic modernist account of mourning in the fields of psychoanalysis and literature. Yet their insistence on the egotistical aspects of loss to the exclusion of all ethical and political considerations threatens the dissolution of the question of mourning.

Author : Erica Joan Dymond
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793633941

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Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema by Erica Joan Dymond Pdf

Over the course of the past two decades, horror cinema around the globe has become increasingly preoccupied with the concept of loss. Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss examines the theme of grief as it is represented in both indie and mainstream films, including works such as Jennifer Kent's watershed film The Babadook, Juan Antonio Bayona's award-sweeping El orfanato, Ari Aster's genre-straddling Midsommar, and Lars von Trier's visually stunning Melancholia. Analyzing depictions of grief ranging from the intimate grief of a small family to the collective grief of an entire nation, the essays illustrate how these works serve to provide unity, catharsis, and—sometimes—healing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015032014303

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Screen International Film and TV Year Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tess Liem
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770565739

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Obits. by Tess Liem Pdf

In Obits. a speaker tries and fails to write obituaries for those whose memorials are missing, those who are represented only as statistics. She considers victims of mass deaths, fictional characters, and her own aunt, asking what does it mean to be an 'I' mourning a 'you' when both have been othered? Centring vulnerability, the various answers to this question pass through trauma, depression, and the experience of being a mixed-race queer woman.

Author : Eric L. Santner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0801481627

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Stranded Objects by Eric L. Santner Pdf

Author : Gus Moreno
Publisher : MCD x FSG Originals
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374722838

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This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno Pdf

"A surreal excursion into heartache and horror narrated by a man undone by grief . . . Along with allusions to Rod Serling and The Exorcist, there are shades of H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, zombie literature and, at least once, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . . . You don't want to read this book right before bed." —Sarah Lyall, The New York Times Book Review “This intense cosmic horror with a touch of Mexican American folklore is incredibly creepy and moving.” —Margaret Kingsbury, BuzzFeed It was Vera’s idea to buy the Itza. The “world’s most advanced smart speaker!” didn’t interest Thiago, but Vera thought it would be a bit of fun for them amidst all the strange occurrences happening in the condo. It made things worse. The cold spots and scratching in the walls were weird enough, but peculiar packages started showing up at the house—who ordered industrial lye? Then there was the eerie music at odd hours, Thiago waking up to Itza projecting light shows in an empty room. It was funny and strange right up until Vera was killed, and Thiago’s world became unbearable. Pundits and politicians all looking to turn his wife’s death into a symbol for their own agendas. A barrage of texts from her well-meaning friends about letting go and moving on. Waking to the sound of Itza talking softly to someone in the living room . . . The only thing left to do was get far away from Chicago. Away from everything and everyone. A secluded cabin in Colorado seemed like the perfect place to hole up with his crushing grief. But soon Thiago realizes there is no escape—not from his guilt, not from his simmering rage, and not from the evil hunting him, feeding on his grief, determined to make its way into this world. A bold, original horror novel about grief, loneliness and the oppressive intimacy of technology, This Thing Between Us marks the arrival of a spectacular new talent.

Author : Ted Perry
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015049686960

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My Reel Story by Ted Perry Pdf

Taking an unusual look at the role of movies in interpreting personal life experience, the author recounts a series of visits to his native New Orleans as he attempts to dissect the convoluted relationship between himself, his past, his family, the city, and the movies. "My Reel Story" suggests that without the movies, something called America or self or family or hometown would be radically different.

Author : Stephen Mertz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Pittsburgh (Pa.)
ISBN : OCLC:1040017667

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Sudden Death by Stephen Mertz Pdf

Author : Emma Wilson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39076002051667

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French Cinema Since 1950 by Emma Wilson Pdf

French Cinema Since 1950 brings together modern scholarship of the most widely viewed and studied works of the period including classic films such as Truffaut "s The 400 Blows, Resnais " Hiroshima Mon Amour, and works by Godard as well as critical previews of some of the most recent French films up to 1998. It covers relevant directors and their writings, and provides a comprehensive overview of different types of cinema, from thrillers and love stories to historical drama and autobiographies.

Author : David Kerekes,David Slater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015062576833

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Killing for Culture by David Kerekes,David Slater Pdf

Author : John Izod,Joanna Dovalis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317552420

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Cinema as Therapy by John Izod,Joanna Dovalis Pdf

Loss is an inescapable reality of life, and individuals need to develop a capacity to grieve in order to mature and live life to the full. Yet most western movie audiences live in cultures that do not value this necessary process and filmgoers finding themselves deeply moved by a particular film are often left wondering why. In Cinema as Therapy, John Izod and Joanna Dovalis set out to fill a gap in work on the conjunction of grief, therapy and cinema. Looking at films including Million Dollar Baby, The Son’s Room, Birth and The Tree of Life, Cinema as Therapy offers an understanding of how deeply emotional life can be stirred at the movies. Izod and Dovalis note that cinema is a medium which engages people in a virtual dialogue with their own and their culture’s unconscious, more deeply than is commonly thought. By analysing the meaning of each film and the root cause of the particular losses featured, the authors demonstrate how our experiences in the movie theatre create an opportunity to prepare psychologically for the inevitable losses we must all eventually face. In recognising that the movie theatre shares symbolic features with both the church and the therapy room, the reader sees how it becomes a sacred space where people can encounter the archetypal and ease personal suffering through laughter or tears, without inhibition or fear, to reach a deeper understanding of themselves. Cinema as Therapy will be essential reading for therapists, students and academics working in film studies and looking to engage with psychological studies in depth as well as filmgoers who want to explore their relationship with the screen. The book includes a glossary of Jungian and Freudian terms which enhances the clarity of the text and the understanding of the reader.

Author : Laurence A. Rickels
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0814318266

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Aberrations of Mourning by Laurence A. Rickels Pdf