Revisioning War Trauma in Cinema

Jessica Datema is associate professor of literature at Bergen Community College.Manya Steinkoleris associate professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and psychoanalyst in New York City.

“The essays in Revisioning War Trauma in Cinema challenge us to re-vision well-known cinematic representations of the Holocaust through the lens of key insights from trauma studies. The authors’ lucid and accessible language renders reading their unsettling analyses an enriching journey into some of the most complex Holocaust films made. Scholars as well as aficionados of cinematic representations will find the authors’ re-visionings both absorbing and exciting.”

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cinema of the UnbecomingChapter 1: Writing War Reporting Flesh Anonyma: A Woman in BerlnChapter 2: Belonging is Uncanny: Wakolda, or The German DoctorChapter 3: Phoenix: The After-DeathChapter 4: Austrißized: Woman in GoldChapter 5: Music as the Last Word: The Lives of OthersChapter 6: Hannah Arendt: Revisioning Pariahdom in Dark TimesChapter 7: Gasping for Death: László Nemes’ Son of SaulChapter 8: Coppola’s Beguiled: A History DetoxConclusionBibliographyIndex