Unspeakable Histories - Film and the Experience of Catastrophe

Klappentext William Guynn reads seven films depicting atrocities! exploring the emotional resonance that still adheres to traumatic events and the dimensions of experience that historiography leaves untouched. Unspeakable Histories argues that the film medium triggers moments of heightened awareness in which the reality of the past may be recovered. Zusammenfassung William Guynn reads seven films depicting atrocities! exploring the emotional resonance that still adheres to traumatic events and the dimensions of experience that historiography leaves untouched. Unspeakable Histories argues that the film medium triggers moments of heightened awareness in which the reality of the past may be recovered.

Product details

• Authors: William Guynn, William Howard Guynn, Guynn William
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9780231177979
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17797-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; HISTORY / Historiography, Historiography, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism