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This thesis exanunes cinematic depictions of traumatic loss and mourning, with a ~cular focus on ... more This thesis exanunes cinematic depictions of traumatic loss and mourning, with a ~cular focus on representation. My study merges a theoretical and analytical investigation. I aim to defend cinema against the wider post-structuralist claim that trauma refutes the possibility of representation and argue, instead, that an increasing array of filmic examples demonstrate cinema's potential to provide valuable insights into the complexities of the subject. I use Freud's discussion of trauma as a belated, repetitious experience as an entry point to illustrate the ways in which cinema, a medium bound to temporality, can develop a relationship between linear and traumatic time. I frame this discussion with perspectives on trauma, narrative and recovery from theorists such as Judith Herman and Dominick LaCapra. In defining. trauma as a paradoxical experience, I emphasise the need for cinema to approach the subject with a combination of post-structural self-consciousness regarding prob...
This thesis exanunes cinematic depictions of traumatic loss and mourning, with a ~cular focus on ... more This thesis exanunes cinematic depictions of traumatic loss and mourning, with a ~cular focus on representation. My study merges a theoretical and analytical investigation. I aim to defend cinema against the wider post-structuralist claim that trauma refutes the possibility of representation and argue, instead, that an increasing array of filmic examples demonstrate cinema's potential to provide valuable insights into the complexities of the subject. I use Freud's discussion of trauma as a belated, repetitious experience as an entry point to illustrate the ways in which cinema, a medium bound to temporality, can develop a relationship between linear and traumatic time. I frame this discussion with perspectives on trauma, narrative and recovery from theorists such as Judith Herman and Dominick LaCapra. In defining. trauma as a paradoxical experience, I emphasise the need for cinema to approach the subject with a combination of post-structural self-consciousness regarding prob...