Perpetrator cinema confronting genocide in Cambodian documentary
Perpetrator cinema: confronting genocide in Cambodian documentary

Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films documenting the Holocaust and genocides in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and elsewhere have focused on collecting a...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Morag, Raya (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Wallflower [2020]
New York Columbia University Press
Schriftenreihe:Nonfictions
Schlagworte:
Rote Khmer
Geschichte 1990-2018
Geschichte
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Documentary
Documentary films > Cambodia > History and criticism
Genocide in motion pictures
Genocide > Cambodia
Mass murderers > Cambodia > Psychology
Political atrocities > Cambodia
Dokumentarfilm
Völkermord > Motiv
Kambodscha
Online-Zugang:DE-12
DE-1043
DE-1046
DE-858
DE-Aug4
DE-859
DE-860
DE-473
DE-739
Volltext
Zusammenfassung:Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films documenting the Holocaust and genocides in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and elsewhere have focused on collecting and foregrounding the testimony of survivors and victims, the intimate horror of the autogenocide enables post–Khmer Rouge Cambodian documentarians to propose a direct confrontation between the first-generation survivor and the perpetrator of genocide. These films break with Western tradition and disrupt the political view that reconciliation is the only legitimate response to atrocities of the past. Rather, transcending the perpetrator’s typical denial or partial confession, this extraordinary form of "duel" documentary creates confrontational tension and opens up the possibility of a transformation in power relations, allowing viewers to access feelings of moral resentment.Raya Morag examines works by Rithy Panh, Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, and Lida Chan and Guillaume Suon, among others, to uncover the ways in which filmmakers endeavor to allow the survivors’ moral status and courage to guide viewers to a new, more complete understanding of the processes of coming to terms with the past. These documentaries show how moral resentment becomes a way to experience, symbolize, judge, and finally incorporate evil into a system of ethics. Morag’s analysis reveals how perpetrator cinema provides new epistemic tools and propels the recent social-cultural-psychological shift from the era of the witness to the era of the perpetrator
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 283 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780231851176
DOI:10.7312/mora18508

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand! Volltext öffnen

Ähnliche Einträge