Scars and wounds: film and legacies of trauma
- Submitting institution
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Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 96955408
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-319-41024-1
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783319410234
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This volume (pp.299) brings together 5 UK and 5 international scholars from a range of disciplines to investigate the mediatization of trauma in and through film. Responding to the introductory essay’s original proposition concerning the scars and wounds of trauma, the authors present new insights on a range of films and traumatic histories, which are the result of lengthy and intensive research. Making use of complex theoretical developments in trauma studies, the authors bring to bear extensive knowledge of the case studies. Contributions often focus on areas that have received little attention or use approaches that depart from established scholarship.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Scars and Wounds: Film and Legacies of Trauma, a project originally conceived by Nick Hodgin and edited with former colleague Amit Thakkar, brings together a group of international scholars from a range of disciplines (History, Modern Languages, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, English), including some prominent in their field as well as early career researchers, whose work has already generated much academic interest. Bringing to bear expert knowledge of particular historical and political events, the contributors present work, much of which is the result of lengthy and intensive research, on areas that have received little attention, and/or which departs from established scholarship. Under review are a range of films and film cultures and the ways in which these engage with traumatic events and histories. Though the films and events with which they engage are diverse, the chapters coalesce around novel theoretical developments concerning the scars and wounds of trauma.
In addition to a lengthy introduction, co-authored with Amit Thakkar, in which the editors seek to contribute to Trauma Studies theory by developing metaphors (namely the scars and the wounds of the title), as a means of thinking through the temporal nature of trauma, Nick Hodgin also contributes a chapter on Hurricane Katrina and the different ways in which this event and its aftermath have been mediatised. Focussing on When the Levees broke, the epic documentary by filmmaker Spike Lee and Zack Godshall’s lesser-known independent film, Low and Behold, Hodgin examines the ways in which trauma is mediatised, how filmmakers make use of proximity and distance in order to challenge, prompt and provoke audiences into reflecting on their position as secondary witnesses and thus better understand the traumatic event.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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