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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn engaging and insightful look at the construction and purpose of memory and nostalgia in contemporary or 'millennial' film... Film Comment A most welcome collection that addresses the role of memory in some of the most thought-provoking films in cinema today. -- Peter C. Pugsley Media International Australia
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction. Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film, by Amresh Sinha and Terence McSweeney Virtual and Prosthetic Memory 1. Time, Memory and Movement in Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, by Paul Atkinson 2. Reconstructing Memory: Visual Virtuality in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, by Steven Rawle 3. Death Every Sunday Afternoon : The Virtual Memories of Hirokazu Kore-Eda's Afterlife, by Alanna Thain 4. 'Prosthetic Memory' and Transnational Cinema: Globalised Identity and Narrative Recursivity in City of God, by Russell J. A. Kilbourn Traumatic and Allegorical Memory 5. Impossible Memory: Traumatic Narratives in Memento and Mulholland Drive, by Belinda Morrissey 6. Memories of a Catastrophe: Trauma and the Name in Mira Nair's The Namesake, by Amresh Sinha 7. The Future at Odds with the Past : Journey through the Ruins of Memory in Alkinos Tsilimodos's Tom White, by Warwick Mules 8. Filming the Past, Present and Future of an African Village: Ousmane Sembene's Moolaade, by David Murphy Historical and Cultural Memory 9. 'The Unquiet Dead': Memories of the Spanish Civil War in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, by Jonathan Ellis and Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce 10. Rewind: The Will to Remember, the Will to Forget in Michael Haneke's Cache, by Jehanne-Marie Gavarini 11. Memory, Nostalgia and the Feminine: In the Mood for Love and Those Qipaos, by Lynda Chapple 12 Memory as Cultural Battleground in Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, by Terence McSweeney Index
