What is it about?
The article shows how human trauma can be shown and understood via cinema, with particular interest in Robert Bresson's films and some contemporary western films. The article concerns with the philosophy of film and its potential in understanding and representing human trauma.
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Why is it important?
The article shows the limitations of understanding human trauma via excessive psychologizing and psychoanalyzing characteristic for some contemporary western films and explores the potential of cinema in showing the raw trauma as closely as possible to how it happens in real life.
Perspectives
Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has a co-author with whom I have been working for a long time. The article contributes to philosophical tradition of understanding human trauma and suffering in terms of real life experience that can be shown in art and cinema.
Zulfia Karimova
University of Sunderland
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This page is a summary of: ‘Misfortune's Image‘: The Cinematic Representation of Trauma in Robert Bresson's Mouchette (1967), Film-Philosophy, December 2013, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/film.2013.0009.
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