Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema

Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema is a transdisciplinary volume that addresses the cinematic mediation of a wide range of conflicts. From World War II and its aftermath to the exploration of colonial and post-colonial experiences and more r

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Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema

Adriana Martins • Alexandra Lopes • Mónica Dias Editors

Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema

Editors Adriana Martins Universidade Católica Portuguesa Lisbon, Portugal

Alexandra Lopes Universidade Católica Portuguesa Lisbon, Portugal

Mónica Dias Universidade Católica Portuguesa Lisbon, Portugal

ISBN 978-1-137-57519-7 ISBN 978-1-137-57520-3 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57520-3

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CONTENTS

1

Introduction: Towards a Poetics of Conflict in Film Adriana Martins, Alexandra Lopes, and Mónica Dias

Managing Oblivion and Silence

19

Post-conflict Cinema: Beyond Truth and Reconciliation? Thomas Elsaesser

21

The Sovereign’s Broken Voice. On the Cinematic Politics of Representation Isabel Capeloa Gil

43

Long Is the Road: Politics of Memory in an Early Jewish-German Postwar Film Geesa Marie Tuch

61

Part I 2

3

4

5

1

Cinema and Conflict in Postcolonial Mozambique: Archival Images as Illustration and Evidence in Estas São as Armas (1978) Robert Stock

75

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vi

6

CONTENTS

‘What’s This War in the Heart of Nature?’ Fire, Water, Earth and Air in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line Frank A. Anselmo

Part II 7

8

9

10

12

107

The Trauma of Terrorism: Post 9/11 Hollywood Cinema Thomas Riegler

111

A Letter to Osama bin Laden. On Healing and Conciliation in Sharon Maguire’s Incendiary Mónica Dias

123

Memory and Representation: Japanese Terrorism in Distance and United Red Army Nuno Barradas Jorge

137

Narrative Outbreak in Contemporary