... recollection of childhood memories. These memories can represent the descent to Hell. The chapter also determines that the different ways these novels represent war show how memories of Hell can work to trick or unexpectedly release survivors from unbearable aporia. Beloved Morrison Darkness Visible Golding...

... installation s propaganda tableau vivant Oliveira Manoel de Pessoa Fernando Interview João Pedro Rodrigues João Rui Guerra da Mata Portuguese Cinema Memories I had the honor and pleasure of conducting this interview with the Portuguese filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues (JPR) and João Rui Guerra da Mata...

... thinking about the work, art and even the physical existence of the ‘mothers’ of the WCG. This chapter reviews Woolf’s writing on food and motherhood, with a particular focus on the essay ‘Memories of a Working Women’s Guild’, to explore the nuances of class in her work. consumption food shopping...

... and Eileen Northern Ireland British Empire Ten Best Amateur Cine World Butler Mollie Scottish Amateur Film Festival surreal teacher-pupil relations school journeys classroom practice professional women cine film production visual memories childhood Thirty-one children; Thirty-one chances. Thirty...

...Filmmaker-artist of Thai origin Apichatpong Weerasethakul is known for crossing the boundaries between cinema and installation art, documentary film and fiction, and the work of memory, myth and fantasy. Weerasethakul’s variations on the character ‘Boonmee’, including a documentary essay, a series...

...This chapter argues for a complex spatialisation of time and memory in Grant Gee’s essay film Innocence of Memories (2019). Focusing on issues of narrative, the indexical and memory, the author sees Gee’s film functioning in multiple registers, principally as a kind of palimpsest...

... Arrested in Harare memory Piotrowska Agnieszka practice based research reflectivity theory colonial colonialism displacement emotion fiction gender Harare observational ‘other’ the plot race reflexivity subjectivity voice Zimbabwe All that Jazz Amour Fou L’ Birdman Claire’s Knee...

... narratives that powerfully convey personal and collective memories. With a strong background in pioneering digital storytelling through their CaptureWales (2001-2007) project, the BBC has been instrumental in the performance of memory through media. This chapter will provide a fuller understanding...

...This chapter focuses on Reflections on the Revolution in France. It explores how Edmund Burke exploited the immovable weight of conservative memories and histories of the seventeenth century in English political culture. Burke's language is of landed property and of the order...

...-going in his monumental The Age of the Dream Palace (1984), which not only discussed the significance of the films themselves to the 1930s generation, but also drew on his own personal sensory memories of cinemas. Bowen Elizabeth Greene Graham Lewis C Day MacNeice Louis Huxley...

... Commonwealth Dalyell Eleanor travelogues British Raj documentary Echoes of the Raj memory modernity oral history testimonies story telling professional film practitioners professional standards television titling colonialism continuity cross over visibility identity wartime African American...

... to rehabilitate their position as members of a minoritised population. This chapter views creating as a healing space that allows diasporic authors and artists to process trauma through disordered and reordered memories. Through creativity and reflection, they come to terms with the fragmented nature...

...This book considers a wide range of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary works that feature literary deceptions and false memories and in which the relationship between text and author is not what it seems. By exploring a variety of examples of false or embellished memoirs, purportedly...

...Whereas memories are the family’s public face, secrets are its dark underbelly, the shameful events that have been ruthlessly edited out. The first part of this chapter uses Pierre Nora, Marianne Hirsch and Alison Landsberg’s writings on memory at its critical framework. It analyses postmemory...

...This chapter discusses how natural disaster (the 2018 Wenchuan earthquake) and the consequent traumatised memories have influenced cinematic representations of Chengdu and its adjacent areas. Feature films and documentaries proliferated after the earthquake, and ruins, heavy loss of life and local...

...The introduction provides a concise summary of each chapter and presents the book’s division in four parts: (I) An Archaeology of Possible Futures; (II) Material Matters: Memory, Accessibility, Translation; (III) Interstices. Niches. Impure Memories, and (VI) Transgenerational Gaps...

...Sara Saljoughi’s contribution »The Hidden Half, or the Temporal and Collective Politics of Counter-Memory« focuses on Tahmineh Milani’s film Nīmah-yi Panhān/The Hidden Half (2001) on the delicate situation of a former activist from the period immediately following...

... internationally acclaimed first documentary feature. Based on a long-running work using auto-fiction and visual anthropology, the movie confronts state violence in post-revolution Iran, documenting a family history of political disappearances and executions in the 1980s, and its memorializing through different...

...In »Towards an Impure Memory: An Archaeology of Counter-Memories through Telescoping Lenses,« Matthias Wittmann undertakes a re-mapping and a re-examination of selected post-revolutionary Iranian films by using Walter Benjamin’s concept of télescopage (telescoping...