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24 April 2012
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism
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.
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 Noé'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 Moolaadé, 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 María Sánchez-Arce
10. Rewind: The Will to Remember, the Will to Forget in Michael Haneke's Caché, 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