Screening the Scars

The Cinematic (In)visibility of Social Trauma

Buch | Softcover

298 Seiten

2024
Phoenix Publishing House (Verlag)
978-1-80013-290-0 (ISBN)

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Using the cultural medium of film to show how very differently social trauma is negotiated and narrated in different societies. A varied group of international experts offer a careful analysis of the psycho-historical roots of differently motivated losses of trust in social instances in connection with the concept of social trauma.

With contributions from Özcan Alper, Damir Arsenijević, Friederike Bassenge, Alen Drljević, Andreas Hamburger, Camellia Hancheva, Dženana Husremović, Lars Kraume, Dijana Jelača, Ajna Jusić, Cem Kaptanoglu, Stephan Komandarev, Maida Koso-Drljević, Nadia Kozhouharova, Gamze Özçürümez, Tatjana Petzer, Vivian Pramataroff-Hamburger, Goran Radovanović, Biljana Stanković, Svetlozar Vassilev, and Jasmila Žbanić.

In the last decade, the concept of trauma has experienced a surprising boom in sociological and media debates. In a culture of outrage, blanket narratives of victimhood often overshadow the concrete, known social violations and their observable real economic and psychological consequences. The aim of this volume is to reflect on this shift in discourse and to compare it with the concrete historical backgrounds and psychosocial constitutions of countries that have been haunted by social trauma in different ways. In discussing feature films from Germany and four Balkan countries, the book presents the distinct social-traumatic histories, how they are negotiated in different societies, and the motifs cinema uses to narrate them.

The award-winning films featured are Sadilishteto [The Judgement], Grbavica [Esma’s Secret – Grbavica], Muškarci ne plaču [Men Don’t Cry], Enklava [Enclave], Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer [The People vs. Fritz Bauer], and Sonbahar [Autumn]. The individual film analyses are each accompanied by interviews with the filmmakers and introduced by overarching themes, the role of cinema as a place of social understanding in a post-traumatic society, and the methodology of film analysis.

With contributions from the worlds of film, psychoanalysis, activism, psychiatry, film studies, literary and cultural studies, psychology, trauma studies, philosophy, psychotherapy, and human relations, this book has a broad appeal. It is a must-read for those looking for a deeper insight into social trauma and the impact of sociocultural factors, shown so clearly through the filmmaker’s lens.

Andreas Hamburger, psychoanalyst (DPG/IPA), and training analyst (DPG, DGPT), is professor of clinical psychology and psychoanalysis, International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin. He is author, editor, and co-editor of numerous books, book series, and a journal on his main research topics: psychoanalytic supervision, film psychoanalysis, social trauma. Recent English books are Hamburger, Hancheva, & Volkan (Eds.), Social Trauma – An Interdisciplinary Textbook (Springer, 2020); Pramataroff-Hamburger & Hamburger (Eds.), From La Strada to The Hours – Suffering and Sovereign Women in the Movies (Springer, 2024); Hamburger, Film Psychoanalysis – Relational Approaches to Film Interpretation (Routledge, 2024).

Contents

About the editor and contributors

Introduction: Cinematic art and the void

Andreas Hamburger

Part I: Cinematic experience of social trauma

The elephant and the screen. Cinema in the aftermath of social trauma

Andreas Hamburger

Screening memory in trauma cinema

Dijana Jelača

Screening post-Yugoslav trauma and therapy

Tatjana Petzer

Part II: Films and talks

Filming history, filming trauma. Relational psychoanalysis of cinematic art in the post-traumatic void

Andreas Hamburger

Border of hope and death. Stephan Komandarev’s Sadilishteto [The Judgement] and repetition compulsion

Vivian Pramataroff-Hamburger

Injustice in past and present. Sadilishteto [The Judgement]

Stephan Komandarev in conversation with Camellia Hancheva

Jasmila Žbanić’s Grbavica: The land of my pain

Nadia Kozhouharova

“Let’s relax – this is going to go on”: On time and trauma

Jasmila Žbanić in conversation with Damir Arsenijević

Trauma, society, and art

Ajna Jusić in conversation with Dženana Husremović

Trauma and reconciliation in contemporary Balkan cinema: Alen Drljević’s Men Don’t Cry (2017)

Svetlozar Vassilev

Cinema of reconciliation

Alen Drljević in conversation with Maida Koso-Drljević

Container–contained and broken bonds in Goran Radovanović’s Enklava

Camellia Hancheva

Social trauma in Serbia: the importance of history and the power of repentance

Goran Radovanović in conversation with Biljana Stanković

The People v. Fritz Bauer. Lars Kraume’s film against forgetting

Andreas Hamburger

The People v. Fritz Bauer

Lars Kraume in conversation with Friederike Bassenge

Özkan Alper’s Sonbahar [Autumn]

Cem Kaptanoglu

Exploring social trauma and cultural resilience

Özcan Alper in conversation with Gamze Özçürümez on Sonbahar [Autumn]

Epilogue: Cultures and mournings. A comparison of social trauma cinemas, with an epilogue on elephants

Andreas Hamburger

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.11.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80013-290-5 / 1800132905
ISBN-13	978-1-80013-290-0 / 9781800132900
Zustand	Neuware