Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film

by Tarja Laine

In this book, Tarja Laine provides insights into how traumatic cinema invites profound affective engagement with the pathology of memory that lies at the heart of trauma. The author reveals that traumatic cinema communicates the inability to process a traumatic event by means of its aesthetic specificity as a time-based medium.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793651949
• ISBN13: 9781793651945
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"