Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema

226 Pages·2016·3.434 MB·English

by  Adriana Martins, Alexandra Lopes, Mónica Dias (eds.)

Mediations of
Disruption in
Post-Conflict
Cinema
Edited by
Adriana Martins,
Alexandra Lopes
& Mónica Dias
Mediations of Disruption in Post-Confl ict Cinema

Adriana M artins • Alexandra Lopes • M ónica D ias
Editors
Mediations
of Disruption
in Post-C onfl ict
Cinema
Editors
Adriana M artins Alexandra Lopes
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Lisbon, P ortugal Lisbon, Portugal
Mónica D ias
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Lisbon, P ortugal
ISBN 978-1-137-57519-7 ISBN 978-1-137-57520-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57520-3
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ONTENTS
1 Introduction: Towards a Poetics of Confl ict in Film 1
Adriana Martins, Alexandra Lopes, and Mónica Dias
Part I Managing Oblivion and Silence 19
2 Post-confl ict Cinema: Beyond Truth
and Reconciliation? 21
Thomas Elsaesser
3 The Sovereign’s Broken Voice. On the
Cinematic Politics of Representation 43
Isabel Capeloa Gil
4 Long Is the Road: Politics of Memory in an Early
Jewish-German Postwar Film 61
Geesa Marie Tuch
5 Cinema and Confl ict in Postcolonial Mozambique:
Archival Images as Illustration and Evidence
in Estas São as Armas (1978) 75
Robert Stock
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6 ‘What’s This War in the Heart of Nature?’
Fire, Water, Earth and Air in Terrence Malick’s
The Thin Red Line 93
Frank A. Anselmo
Part II Coping with Terrorism 107
7 The Trauma of Terrorism: Post 9/11
Hollywood Cinema 111
Thomas Riegler
8 A Letter to Osama bin Laden. On Healing
and Conciliation in Sharon Maguire’s Incendiary 123
Mónica Dias
9 Memory and Representation: Japanese
Terrorism in Distance and United Red Army 137
Nuno Barradas Jorge
10 Narrative Outbreak in Contemporary Confl ict
Cinema: A Case Study of Steve McQueen’s Hunger 145
Alessandro Zir
Part III Bodies in Transit 157
11 A Look Back or a Look Ahead? Cinematographic
Approaches Toward the ‘Refugee Problem’
in Post-War Germany 161
Alina Laura Tiews
12 Londres en Colère. Of ‘Translated (Wo)men’, Cinema
and the City of Our (Dis)content 177
Alexandra Lopes
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13 A Palestinian Film We Call Home: Women’s
Cinematic Bodies Out of Place 187
Shahd Wadi
14 Challenging Notions of War: Sexual Exploitation
of Eastern Migrants in Promised Land 195
Júlia Garraio
Index 207

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OTES ON ONTRIBUTORS
Frank   A.   Anselmo is Associate Professor at Louisiana State University
in Baton Rouge, where he is a member of the Department of French
Studies. His current research focuses on the depiction of combat in novels
and fi lm. He has also worked extensively on researching the burial prac-
tices of the United States Armed Forces during World War II, especially
the establishment of temporary cemeteries within the theaters of combat
in which the United States was involved and the repatriation of deceased
soldiers to the United States after the war. In his most recently published
article, ‘Making a Case for War: The Lost Provinces of Alsace and Lorraine
in Popular French Fiction from 1905 to 1914’ ( Comunicação & Cultura/
Pré-Guerras , vol. 16, fall/winter 2013, pp. 75–92), he examines a selec-
tion of anti-German, anti-annexation novels that were published in France
by writers from Alsace and Lorraine (such as Maurice Barrès, Paul Acker,
and Jeanne Régamey) in the ten years that preceded World War I.
Mónica   Dias i s Dean for Academic Program of the Institute for Political
Studies and Head of the PhD Program in Political Science and International
Relations at this Institute of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP)
where she has taught since 1992. She holds a PhD in Political Science and
International Relations from the UCP with a dissertation on Woodrow
Wilson’s Peace Concept and currently works in the fi eld of Democracy
Studies, Peace Studies, and International Confl ict. She graduated in the
fi eld of Cultural Studies from the School of Humanities, University of
Lisbon. Apart from her academic experience, she also worked as a lecturer
at international youth seminars on multicultural Education, Leadership,
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