Screening the Scars: The Cinematic Invisibility of Social Trauma, 1e

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Karnac Books Limited
288 pages
ISBN: 9781800132900
November 2024

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.