In spite of the overwhelming interest in the study of memory and trauma, no single volume has yet explored the centrality of memory to films of this era in a global context; this volume is the first anthology devoted exclusively to the study of memory in twenty-first-century cinema. Combining individual readings and interdisciplinary methodologies, this book offers new analyses of memory and trauma in some of the most discussed and debated films of the new millennium: Pan's Labyrinth (2006), The Namesake (2006), Hidden (2005), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Oldboy (2003), City of God (2002), Irréversible (2002), Mulholland Drive (2001), Memento (2000), and In the Mood for Love (2000).
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xi
- INTRODUCTION MILLENNIAL CINEMA: MEMORY IN GLOBAL FILM, Amresh Sinha and Terence McSweeney 1
- VIRTUAL AND PROSTHETIC MEMORY
- 1. TIME, MEMORY AND MOVEMENT IN GASPAR NOÉ’S IRREVERSIBLE, Paul Atkinson 17
- 2. RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST: VISUAL VIRTUALITY IN ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, Steven Rawle 37
- 3. DEATH EVERY SUNDAY AFTERNOON: THE VIRTUAL REALITIES OF HIROKAZU KORE-EDA’S AFTERLIFE, Alanna Thain 55
- 4. ‘PROSTHETIC MEMORY’ AND TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA: GLOBALISED IDENTITY AND NARRATIVE RECURSIVITY IN CITY OF GOD, Russell J. A. Kilbourn 71
- TRAUMATIC AND ALLEGORICAL MEMORY
- 5. IMPOSSIBLE MEMORY: TRAUMATIC NARRATIVES IN MEMENTO AND MULHOLLAND DRIVE, Belinda Morrissey 97
- 6. MEMORIES OF A CATASTROPHE: TRAUMA AND THE NAME IN MIRA NAIR’S THE NAMESAKE, Amresh Sinha 117
- 7. THE FUTURE AT ODDS WITH THE PAST: JOURNEY THROUGH THE RUINS OF MEMORY IN ALKINOS TSILIMODOS’S TOM WHITE, Warwick Mules 139
- 8. FILMING THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AN AFRICAN VILLAGE: OUSMANE SEMBENE’S MOOLAADÉ, David Murphy 156
- HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL MEMORY
- 9. ‘THE UNQUIET DEAD’: MEMORIES OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR IN GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S CINEMA, Jonathan Ellis and Ana María Sánchez-Arce 173
- 10. REWIND: THE WILL TO REMEMBER, THE WILL TO FORGET IN MICHAEL HANEKE’S CACHÉ (2005), Jehanne-Marie Gavarini 192
- 11. MEMORY, NOSTALGIA AND THE FEMININE: IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE AND THOSE QIPAOS, Lynda Chapple 209
- 12. MEMORY AS CULTURAL BATTLEGROUND IN PARK CHAN-WOOK’S OLDBOY, Terence McSweeney 222
- INDEX 239
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