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A death in the family: meditations on mourning in contemporary cinema
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| author | Petousis, Simone |
| author2 | Marx, Lesley |
| author_browse | Marx, Lesley Petousis, Simone |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| publishDate | 2015 |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12094 A death in the family: meditations on mourning in contemporary cinema Petousis, Simone Marx, Lesley Film Studies Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. This thesis examines cinematic depictions of traumatic loss and mourning, with particular 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... 2015-01-11T13:30:37Z 2015-01-11T13:30:37Z 2012 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12094 eng application/pdf Centre for Film and Media Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Film Studies Petousis, Simone A death in the family: meditations on mourning in contemporary cinema |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | A death in the family: meditations on mourning in contemporary cinema |
| title_full | A death in the family: meditations on mourning in contemporary cinema |
| title_fullStr | A death in the family: meditations on mourning in contemporary cinema |
| title_full_unstemmed | A death in the family: meditations on mourning in contemporary cinema |
| title_short | A death in the family: meditations on mourning in contemporary cinema |
| title_sort | death in the family meditations on mourning in contemporary cinema |
| topic | Film Studies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12094 |
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