Amresh Sinha teaches film and media theory at New York University, The School of Visual Arts, and The College of Staten Island; his articles have appeared in many journals and books on the subject of memory in film and philosophy. Terence McSweeney is a lecturer in Film Studies at Southampton Solent University in England; he has published on a diverse range of topics connected to film, literature and history.

An engaging and insightful look at the construction and purpose of memory and nostalgia in contemporary or 'millennial' film... Film Comment A most welcome collection that addresses the role of memory in some of the most thought-provoking films in cinema today. -- Peter C. Pugsley Media International Australia

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction. Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film, by Amresh Sinha and Terence McSweeney Virtual and Prosthetic Memory 1. Time, Memory and Movement in Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, by Paul Atkinson 2. Reconstructing Memory: Visual Virtuality in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, by Steven Rawle 3. Death Every Sunday Afternoon : The Virtual Memories of Hirokazu Kore-Eda's Afterlife, by Alanna Thain 4. 'Prosthetic Memory' and Transnational Cinema: Globalised Identity and Narrative Recursivity in City of God, by Russell J. A. Kilbourn Traumatic and Allegorical Memory 5. Impossible Memory: Traumatic Narratives in Memento and Mulholland Drive, by Belinda Morrissey 6. Memories of a Catastrophe: Trauma and the Name in Mira Nair's The Namesake, by Amresh Sinha 7. The Future at Odds with the Past : Journey through the Ruins of Memory in Alkinos Tsilimodos's Tom White, by Warwick Mules 8. Filming the Past, Present and Future of an African Village: Ousmane Sembene's Moolaade, by David Murphy Historical and Cultural Memory 9. 'The Unquiet Dead': Memories of the Spanish Civil War in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, by Jonathan Ellis and Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce 10. Rewind: The Will to Remember, the Will to Forget in Michael Haneke's Cache, by Jehanne-Marie Gavarini 11. Memory, Nostalgia and the Feminine: In the Mood for Love and Those Qipaos, by Lynda Chapple 12 Memory as Cultural Battleground in Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, by Terence McSweeney Index

Amresh Sinha teaches film and media theory at New York University, The School of Visual Arts, and The College of Staten Island; his articles have appeared in many journals and books on the subject of memory in film and philosophy. Terence McSweeney is a lecturer in Film Studies at Southampton Solent University in England; he has published on a diverse range of topics connected to film, literature and history.

An engaging and insightful look at the construction and purpose of memory and nostalgia in contemporary or 'millennial' film... Film Comment A most welcome collection that addresses the role of memory in some of the most thought-provoking films in cinema today. -- Peter C. Pugsley Media International Australia

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction. Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film, by Amresh Sinha and Terence McSweeney Virtual and Prosthetic Memory 1. Time, Memory and Movement in Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, by Paul Atkinson 2. Reconstructing Memory: Visual Virtuality in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, by Steven Rawle 3. Death Every Sunday Afternoon : The Virtual Memories of Hirokazu Kore-Eda's Afterlife, by Alanna Thain 4. 'Prosthetic Memory' and Transnational Cinema: Globalised Identity and Narrative Recursivity in City of God, by Russell J. A. Kilbourn Traumatic and Allegorical Memory 5. Impossible Memory: Traumatic Narratives in Memento and Mulholland Drive, by Belinda Morrissey 6. Memories of a Catastrophe: Trauma and the Name in Mira Nair's The Namesake, by Amresh Sinha 7. The Future at Odds with the Past : Journey through the Ruins of Memory in Alkinos Tsilimodos's Tom White, by Warwick Mules 8. Filming the Past, Present and Future of an African Village: Ousmane Sembene's Moolaade, by David Murphy Historical and Cultural Memory 9. 'The Unquiet Dead': Memories of the Spanish Civil War in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, by Jonathan Ellis and Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce 10. Rewind: The Will to Remember, the Will to Forget in Michael Haneke's Cache, by Jehanne-Marie Gavarini 11. Memory, Nostalgia and the Feminine: In the Mood for Love and Those Qipaos, by Lynda Chapple 12 Memory as Cultural Battleground in Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, by Terence McSweeney Index

Amresh Sinha teaches film and media theory at New York University, The School of Visual Arts, and The College of Staten Island; his articles have appeared in many journals and books on the subject of memory in film and philosophy. Terence McSweeney is a lecturer in Film Studies at Southampton Solent University in England; he has published on a diverse range of topics connected to film, literature and history.

An engaging and insightful look at the construction and purpose of memory and nostalgia in contemporary or 'millennial' film... Film Comment A most welcome collection that addresses the role of memory in some of the most thought-provoking films in cinema today. -- Peter C. Pugsley Media International Australia

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction. Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film, by Amresh Sinha and Terence McSweeney Virtual and Prosthetic Memory 1. Time, Memory and Movement in Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, by Paul Atkinson 2. Reconstructing Memory: Visual Virtuality in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, by Steven Rawle 3. Death Every Sunday Afternoon : The Virtual Memories of Hirokazu Kore-Eda's Afterlife, by Alanna Thain 4. 'Prosthetic Memory' and Transnational Cinema: Globalised Identity and Narrative Recursivity in City of God, by Russell J. A. Kilbourn Traumatic and Allegorical Memory 5. Impossible Memory: Traumatic Narratives in Memento and Mulholland Drive, by Belinda Morrissey 6. Memories of a Catastrophe: Trauma and the Name in Mira Nair's The Namesake, by Amresh Sinha 7. The Future at Odds with the Past : Journey through the Ruins of Memory in Alkinos Tsilimodos's Tom White, by Warwick Mules 8. Filming the Past, Present and Future of an African Village: Ousmane Sembene's Moolaade, by David Murphy Historical and Cultural Memory 9. 'The Unquiet Dead': Memories of the Spanish Civil War in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, by Jonathan Ellis and Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce 10. Rewind: The Will to Remember, the Will to Forget in Michael Haneke's Cache, by Jehanne-Marie Gavarini 11. Memory, Nostalgia and the Feminine: In the Mood for Love and Those Qipaos, by Lynda Chapple 12 Memory as Cultural Battleground in Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, by Terence McSweeney Index