Unspeakable Histories: Film and the Experience of Catastrophe

by William Howard Guynn

Book Overview

In Unspeakable Histories, William Guynn focuses on the sensation of encountering past events through film. Film is capable, he argues, of triggering moments of heightened awareness in which the barrier between the past and the present can fall and the reality of the past we thought lost can be momentarily rediscovered in its material being. In his readings of seven exceptional works depicting twentieth century atrocities, Guynn explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231177976
• ISBN13: 9780231177979
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher