Cinema's Missing Children - Rilegato

Wilson, Emma

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ISBN 10: 1903364515 ISBN 13: 9781903364512

Casa editrice: Wallflower Pr, 2003

Riassunto

Photographs of missing children are some of the most haunting images of contemporary Western society. The specter of the child at risk from abduction, abuse, or illness, conjures questions about traumatic loss, protection and the family, nostalgia and childhood innocence. Emma Wilson argues that such questions increasingly return in the work of contemporary filmmakers. She explores the representation of missing and endangered children in a number of the key films of the last decade, including Kieslowski'sThree Colours: Blue, Atom Egoyan's Exotica, Todd Solondz's Happiness, Jane Campion'sThe Portrait of a Lady, Lars von Trier's The Kingdom, and Almodovar'sAll About My Mother. Wilson contends that the loss of a child is perceived as a limit-experience in contemporary cinema, where filmmakers attempt to transform their means of representation as a response to acute pain and horror.

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L'autore:

Emma Wilson is senior lecturer in French at Cambridge University, UK. She is the author ofSexuality and the Reading Encounter, French Cinema Since 1950, and Memory and Survival: The French Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski.

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Book by Wilson Emma

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Wallflower Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1903364515
• ISBN 13: 9781903364512
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 208