Shocking Representation Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film

Name: Shocking Representation Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film
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ISBN: 9780231132473

ISBN-10: 0231132476

ISBN-13: 9780231132473

Edition: 2005

Authors: Adam Lowenstein

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In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju, Michael Powell, Shindo Kaneto, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg. He shows that through allegorical representations these directors' films confronted and challenged comforting historical narratives and notions of national identity intended to soothe public anxieties in the aftermath of national traumas. Borrowing elements from art cinema and the horror genre, these directors disrupted the…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/9/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Allegorical Moment



France: History Without a Face: Surrealism, Modernity, and the Holocaust in the Cinema of Georges Franju



Britain: "Direct Emotional Realism": The People's War, Classlessness, and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom



Japan: Unmasking Hiroshima: Demons, Human Beings, and Shindo Kaneto's Onibaba



United States: "Only a Movie": Specters of Vietnam in Wes Craven's Last House on the Left



Canada: Trauma and Nation Made Flesh: David Cronenberg and the Foundations of the Allegorical Moment


Afterword: 9/11/01, 8/6/45, Ground Zero


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