Cinematic Cryptonymies: The Absent Body in Postwar Film

by Ofer Eliaz

Book Overview

Following World War II, the world had to confront the unmournable specters of those who had been erased socially and historically. Cinematic Cryptonymies: The Absent Body in Postwar Film explores how cinema addressed these missing bodies through an in-depth analysis of key filmmakers from the immediate postwar moment through the present. Ofer Eliaz provides a cinematic history as well as a theoretical framework rooted in psychoanalysis that allows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081434562X
• ISBN13: 9780814345627
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"