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Trauma cinema

by Walker, Janet

Documentary filmsHistory and criticismHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion picturesIncest in motion picturesMemoryPsychic trauma in motion pictures

'Trauma Cinema' focuses on a new breed of documentary films that adopt catastrophe as their subject matter & trauma as their aesthetic. Walker uses incest & the Holocaust as a double thematic focus & fiction films as a point of comparison.

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