Trauma in Recent Algerian Documentary Cinema: Stories of Civil Conflict Told by the Living Dead
This chapter addresses the representation of trauma in recent Algerian documentary cinema generated by the so-called civil war or ‘black decade’ that Algeria experienced in the 1990s. In the aftermath of a conflict that claimed between 100,000 and 200,000
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EDITED BY NICK HODGIN AND AMIT THAKKAR
Scars and Wounds
Nick Hodgin • Amit Thakkar Editors
Scars and Wounds Film and Legacies of Trauma
Editors Nick Hodgin University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Amit Thakkar Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-41023-4 ISBN 978-3-319-41024-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41024-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016956386 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Adam Tiernan Thomas / Stockimo / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Contents
1 Introduction: Trauma Studies, Film and the Scar Motif1 Nick Hodgin and Amit Thakkar 2 Trauma in Recent Algerian Documentary Cinema: Stories of Civil Conflict Told by the Living Dead31 Guy Austin 3 Elusive Figures: Children’s Trauma and Bosnian War Cinema53 Dijana Jelača 4 Conferring Visibility on Trauma within Rwanda’s National Reconciliation: Kivu Ruhorahoza’s Disturbing and Salutary Camera77 Alexandre Dauge-Roth 5 Proximity and Distance: Approaching Trauma in Katrina Films101 Nick Hodgin
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6 ‘Our Long National Nightmare Is Over’?: The Resolution of Trauma and Male Melodrama in The Tree of Life Brian Baker
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7 Listening to the Pain of Others: Isabel Coixet’s La vida secreta de las palabras (The Secret Life of Words) Erin K. Hogan
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8 Australian Postcolonial Trauma and Silences in Samson and Delilah Ben Gook
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9 Trauma’s Slow Onslaught: Sound and Silence in Lav Diaz’s Florentina Hubaldo, CTE Nadin Mai
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10 Flesh and Blood in the Globalised Age: Pablo Trapero’s Nacido y cri
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