Defeated Masculinity: Post-Traumatic Cinema in the Aftermath of War

by Raya Morag

The burgeoning field of trauma and cinema is an exciting development within contemporary trauma studies. The author of this book describes the complex relationship between cinema and the trauma of defeat in war. An asymmetric and non-binary comparison of two test cases, post-World War II New German Cinema and post-Vietnam War American cinema, illuminates the indirect and intriguing ways these societies have dealt with the enormous psycho-cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9052014698
• ISBN13: 9789052014692
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques
• Length: 298 Pages