Scars and Wounds

1. Introduction: Trauma Studies, Film and the Scar Motif
Nick Hodgin, Amit Thakkar

2. Trauma in Recent Algerian Documentary Cinema: Stories of Civil Conflict Told by the Living Dead
Guy Austin

3. Elusive Figures: Children’s Trauma and Bosnian War Cinema
Dijana Jelača

4. Conferring Visibility on Trauma within Rwanda’s National Reconciliation: Kivu Ruhorahoza’s Disturbing and Salutary Camera
Alexandre Dauge-Roth

5. Proximity and Distance: Approaching Trauma in Katrina Films
Nick Hodgin

6. ‘Our Long National Nightmare Is Over’?: The Resolution of Trauma and Male Melodrama in The Tree of Life

Brian Baker

7. Listening to the Pain of Others: Isabel Coixet’s La vida secreta de las palabras (The Secret Life of Words)

Erin K. Hogan

8. Australian Postcolonial Trauma and Silences in Samson and Delilah

Ben Gook

9. Trauma’s Slow Onslaught: Sound and Silence in Lav Diaz’s Florentina Hubaldo, CTE

Nadin Mai

10. Flesh and Blood in the Globalised Age: Pablo Trapero’s Nacido y criado (Born and Bred) and Carancho (The Vulture)
Fiona Clancy

11. Unclaimed Experience and the Implicated Subject in Pablo Larraín’s Post Mortem

Amit Thakkar

12.
Persepolis: Telling Tales of Trauma
Steven Allen

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, Conflict Studies, Memory Studies, Cultural History