Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema

289 Pages·2010·13.943 MB·English

by  Russell J.A. Kilbourn

Cinema, Memory, Modernity
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Cinema, Memory, Modernity
The Representation of Memory from the Art
Film to Transnational Cinema
Russell J. A. Kilbourn
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Kilbourn, Russell J. A. (Russell James Angus), 1964-
Cinema, memory, modernity : the representation of memory from the art film to
transnational cinema / by Russell J. A. Kilbourn.
p. cm. — (Routledge advances in film studies ; 6)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Memory in motion pictures. 2. Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures.
3. Philosophy in motion pictures. I. Title.
PN1995.9.M455K55 2010
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2009053633
ISBN13: 978-0-415-80118-8 (hbk)
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction—Cinema, Memory, Modernity:
The Return of Film as Memory 1
1 No Escape from Time: Memory and Redemption in the
International Postwar Art Film 46
2 The 'Crisis' of Memory: 'Traumatic Identity' in the
Contemporary Memory Film 95
3 'Global Memory': Cinema as Lingua Franca and the
Commodification of the Image 141
4 The Eye of History: Memory, Surveillance and Ethicality
in the Contemporary Art Film 178
5 'Prosthetic Memory' and Transnational Cinema:
Globalized Identity and Narrative Recursivity in City of God 204
Coda—Remembering to Forget:
The Catachreses of Modernity 222
Notes 231
Bibliography 247
Index 261

Figures
0.1 Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942). 15
0.2 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941). 16
1.1 Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1950). 53
1.2 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958). 66
1.3 Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1950). 69
1.4 Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983). 72
1.5 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958). 74
1.6 Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983). 75
1.7 Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957). 76
1.8 Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957). 78
1.9 A Christmas Carol (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1951). 79
1.10 Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975). 81
1.11 Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987). 92
2.1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry,
2004). 135
2.2 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry,
2004). 135
3.1 Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982). 150
3.2 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958). 153
3.3 The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002). 171