The Traumatic Screen

The Traumatic ScreenThe Traumatic Screen is a psychoanalytic study that considers the function and presentation of trauma in Christopher Nolans films. Using a methodological framework with references to Freud and Lacan, the author argues that Nolans films highlight the ways in which the cinema can provide specific insights into the nature of human consciousness.

Free sample: Introduction – Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler and Anat Geva

The essays within are informed by both theory and practice

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especially authoritarian governments

environmental and ecological solutions

Salys explores how Aleksandrov’s cinema preserved the paradigms of the American musical

An accessible introduction for students and professionals

The book includes recipes and essays that ask how to counter the role of the food industry as a machine of consumption

along with languages

Subverting the bildungsroman genre

including the island’s documentary tradition showcasing local faces and places that have paved the way for present-day media and audio-visual art

• Debates over cultural plurality and diversity