Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's phantasmatic testimonies

Camera Obscura

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 157-185

  O'Neill, Edward R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 34248536833     PISSN: 02705346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/02705346-19-3_57-157     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985).
2. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism; or, the Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992), 19, 16-17.
3. Elie Wiesel, "The Holocaust as a Literary Inspiration," in Dimensions of the Holocaust, ed. Elliot Lefkowitz (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1977), 9;
4. Theodor W. Adorno, "Cultural Criticism and Society," in Prisms, trans. Samuel Weber and Shierry Weber (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1983), 34.
5. Miriam Bratu Hansen points out the ease of simplifying Adorno's formulation here. "Schindler's List Is Not Shoah: The Second Commandment, Popular Modernism, and Public Memory," Critical Inquiry 22 (1996): 302 n. 28.
6. See, for instance, Shoshana Felman, "Education and Crisis, or the Vicissitudes of Teaching," in Trauma: Explorations in Memory, ed. Cathy Caruth (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 53.
7. J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, ed. Marina Sbisa and J. O. Urmsson, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975).
8. Dori Laub and Shoshana Felman, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History (New York: Routledge, 1992), 60.
9. See Ross Chambers's suggestive analysis in "Orphaned Memories, Foster-Writing, Phantom Pain: The Fragments Affair," in Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community, ed. Nancy K. Miller and Jason Tougaw (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002), 92-111.
10. Laub and Felman, Testimony, 55, 67-68.
11. Janet Walker, "The Traumatic Paradox: Documentary Films, Historical Fictions, and Cataclysmic Past Events," Signs 22 (1997): 806.
12. James E. Young, "The Holocaust as Vicarious Past: Art Spiegelman's Maus and the Afterimages of History," in Witnessing the Disaster: Essays on Representation and the Holocaust, ed. Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), 37-38.
13. See, for example, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory (New York: Ballantine, 2003);
14. See Jean Laplanche and J. B. Pontalis, The Language of Psycho-Analysis (New York: Norton, 1974).
15. Thomas Elsaesser, "Postmodernism as Mourning Work," Screen 42 (2001): 193-201.
16. Chris Pizzello, "Glitter Gulch," American Cinematographer 79 (1998): 30-34.
17. See my argument in "Poison-ous Queers: Violence and Social Order;" Spectator: The USC Journal of Cinema and Television Criticism 15 (l994): 9-29.