03760nam 2200601Ia 450 991082111280332120200520144314.01-282-13444-297866138070210-8135-4116-610.36019/9780813541167(OCoLC)974671303(MiAaPQ)EBC977456(DE-B1597)529569(DE-B1597)9780813541167(CKB)2670000000230586(EXLCZ)99267000000023058620041005d2005 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrTrauma culture the politics of terror and loss in media and literature /E. Ann Kaplan1st ed.New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20051 online resource (204 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-3590-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-179) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --INTRODUCTION: 9/11 and “Disturbing Remains” --CHAPTER 1. “Why Trauma Now?” --CHAPTER 2. Memory as Testimony in World War II --CHAPTER 3. Melodrama and Trauma --CHAPTER 4. Vicarious Trauma and “Empty” Empathy --CHAPTER 5. “Translating” Trauma in Postcolonial Contexts --CHAPTER 6. The Ethics of Witnessing --EPILOGUE: “Wounded New York” --NOTES --WORKS CITED --INDEX --ABOUT THE AUTHORIt may be said that every trauma is two traumas or ten thousand-depending on the number of people involved. How one experiences and reacts to an event is unique and depends largely on one's direct or indirect positioning, personal psychic history, and individual memories. But equally important to the experience of trauma are the broader political and cultural contexts within which a catastrophe takes place and how it is "managed" by institutional forces, including the media. In Trauma Culture, E. Ann Kaplan explores the relationship between the impact of trauma on individuals and on entire cultures and nations. Arguing that humans possess a compelling need to draw meaning from personal experience and to communicate what happens to others, she examines the artistic, literary, and cinematic forms that are often used to bridge the individual and collective experience. A number of case studies, including Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism, Marguerite Duras' La Douleur, Sarah Kofman's Rue Ordener, Rue Labat, Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, and Tracey Moffatt's Night Cries, reveal how empathy can be fostered without the sensationalistic element that typifies the media. From World War II to 9/11, this passionate study eloquently navigates the contentious debates surrounding trauma theory and persuasively advocates the responsible sharing and translating of catastrophe.Terrorism in motion picturesDisaster filmsHistory and criticismPsychic trauma in motion picturesPsychic trauma in literatureLiterature, Modern20th centuryHistory and criticismCulture in motion picturesTerrorism in motion pictures.Disaster filmsHistory and criticism.Psychic trauma in motion pictures.Psychic trauma in literature.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.Culture in motion pictures.791.43/6552Kaplan E. Ann460790MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821112803321Trauma culture1350124UNINA