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Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema Edited by Adriana Martins, Alexandra Lopes & Mónica Dias Mediations of Disruption in Post-Confl ict Cinema Adriana M artins • Alexandra Lopes • M ónica D ias Editors Mediations of Disruption in Post-C onfl ict Cinema Editors Adriana M artins Alexandra Lopes Universidade Católica Portuguesa Universidade Católica Portuguesa Lisbon, P ortugal Lisbon, Portugal Mónica D ias Universidade Católica Portuguesa Lisbon, P ortugal ISBN 978-1-137-57519-7 ISBN 978-1-137-57520-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57520-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016938070 © The Editors (if applicable) and the Authors 2 016 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identifi ed as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifi cally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfi lms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specifi c statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. London C ONTENTS 1 Introduction: Towards a Poetics of Confl ict in Film 1 Adriana Martins, Alexandra Lopes, and Mónica Dias Part I Managing Oblivion and Silence 19 2 Post-confl ict Cinema: Beyond Truth and Reconciliation? 21 Thomas Elsaesser 3 The Sovereign’s Broken Voice. On the Cinematic Politics of Representation 43 Isabel Capeloa Gil 4 Long Is the Road: Politics of Memory in an Early Jewish-German Postwar Film 61 Geesa Marie Tuch 5 Cinema and Confl ict in Postcolonial Mozambique: Archival Images as Illustration and Evidence in Estas São as Armas (1978) 75 Robert Stock v vi CONTENTS 6 ‘What’s This War in the Heart of Nature?’ Fire, Water, Earth and Air in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line 93 Frank A. Anselmo Part II Coping with Terrorism 107 7 The Trauma of Terrorism: Post 9/11 Hollywood Cinema 111 Thomas Riegler 8 A Letter to Osama bin Laden. On Healing and Conciliation in Sharon Maguire’s Incendiary 123 Mónica Dias 9 Memory and Representation: Japanese Terrorism in Distance and United Red Army 137 Nuno Barradas Jorge 10 Narrative Outbreak in Contemporary Confl ict Cinema: A Case Study of Steve McQueen’s Hunger 145 Alessandro Zir Part III Bodies in Transit 157 11 A Look Back or a Look Ahead? Cinematographic Approaches Toward the ‘Refugee Problem’ in Post-War Germany 161 Alina Laura Tiews 12 Londres en Colère. Of ‘Translated (Wo)men’, Cinema and the City of Our (Dis)content 177 Alexandra Lopes CONTENTS vii 13 A Palestinian Film We Call Home: Women’s Cinematic Bodies Out of Place 187 Shahd Wadi 14 Challenging Notions of War: Sexual Exploitation of Eastern Migrants in Promised Land 195 Júlia Garraio Index 207 N C OTES ON ONTRIBUTORS Frank A. Anselmo is Associate Professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he is a member of the Department of French Studies. His current research focuses on the depiction of combat in novels and fi lm. He has also worked extensively on researching the burial prac- tices of the United States Armed Forces during World War II, especially the establishment of temporary cemeteries within the theaters of combat in which the United States was involved and the repatriation of deceased soldiers to the United States after the war. In his most recently published article, ‘Making a Case for War: The Lost Provinces of Alsace and Lorraine in Popular French Fiction from 1905 to 1914’ ( Comunicação & Cultura/ Pré-Guerras , vol. 16, fall/winter 2013, pp. 75–92), he examines a selec- tion of anti-German, anti-annexation novels that were published in France by writers from Alsace and Lorraine (such as Maurice Barrès, Paul Acker, and Jeanne Régamey) in the ten years that preceded World War I. Mónica Dias i s Dean for Academic Program of the Institute for Political Studies and Head of the PhD Program in Political Science and International Relations at this Institute of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) where she has taught since 1992. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the UCP with a dissertation on Woodrow Wilson’s Peace Concept and currently works in the fi eld of Democracy Studies, Peace Studies, and International Confl ict. She graduated in the fi eld of Cultural Studies from the School of Humanities, University of Lisbon. Apart from her academic experience, she also worked as a lecturer at international youth seminars on multicultural Education, Leadership, ix
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