Trauma and screen studies: Opening the debate

Screen

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 188-193

  Radstone, Susannah ^a  

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1. I have written about this more extensively in Susannah Radstone (ed.), Memory and Methodology (New York and Oxford: Berg, 2000)
2. Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History (New York and London: Routledge, 1992)
3. Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)
4. Cathy Caruth, Trauma: Explorations in Memory (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)
5. This is the analysis that 1 try to pursue in my 'Screening trauma Forrest Gump, film and memory', in Radstone (ed.), Memory and Methodology, and in 'Testimonies: psychic law and social order', in the Cultural Values special issue on Testimonial Cultures, vol. 5, no. 1 (2001); it is a question that Thomas Elsaesser also takes up in his contribution to this dossier
6. See her chapter subsection on 'Holocaust flashbacks: trauma and repression', in Maureen Turim, Flashbacks in Film: Memory and History (New York and London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 231-42
7. Hayden White, The modernist event', in Vivian Sobchack (ed.), The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television and the Modern Event (New York and London: Routledge, 1996)
8. Kevin Toolis, 'Shock tactics', Guardian Weekend, 13 November 1999, pp. 27-36
9. See Caruth (ed.), Trauma: Explorations in Memory, Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History
10. Fredric Jameson's account was one of the first to associate postmodernism with depthtessness. See Fredric Jameson, 'Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism', New Left Review, no. 146 (1984), pp. 53-92
11. See, for instance, Robert A. Rosenstone' 'The future of the past: film and the beginnings of postmodern history', in Sobchack, The Persistence of History, for similar discussions of the relation between history and contemporary cinema see also American History Review, vol. 93, no. 5 (1988)