Essays about: "trauma film"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words trauma film.

1. 1. Woven from Hundreds of Flowers : Religion, Conflict, and Collective Memory in Nepal as Seen Through Deepak Rauniyar’s Film White Sun

   University essay from

   Author : Zara Luna Hjelm; [2023]
   Keywords : Nepal; Nepali Civil War; Religion; Gender; Film; Film Theory;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how religious traditions, collective memory, and conflict are represented in the Nepali film White Sun (2016), which was co-written and directed by Deepak Rauniyar. The film focuses on an anti-regime partisan who returns home to the rural areas of Nepal to bury his father. READ MORE

3. 2. Documentary as a Medium to Advance a Public Apology to Comfort Women in a Transitional Justice Context

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Jenny Wang; [2023]
   Keywords : comfort women; cultural trauma; transitional justice reparations; communication for social change; carrier groups; documentary;

   Abstract : This thesis explores how the documentary film The Apology (as a medium) and its filmmaker (as a carrier group) functions as connection points between cultural trauma and transitional justice reparations driving social change. Earlier approaches to bringing justice to comfort women have been based on legal frameworks which this thesis considers restrictive and instead examines justice and reparations from a victim-centred perspective. READ MORE

4. 3. EXPLORING ECO-TRAUMA REPRESENTATIONS IN WESTERN SOCIETY’S AYAHUASCA DOCUMENTARY FILM

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Gwendoline Nalvarte Nunez; [2023]
   Keywords : Ayahuasca documentary films; Eco-Trauma; Physical eco-traumas; Psychological eco-traumas; Human-induced eco-traumas; Western filmmakers; World-System Theory; Globalisation; Eco-Criticism; Indigenous Communities; Case Studies: Shamans of the Amazon; Other Worlds; and Ayahuasca UN-Well docuseries Netflix; Arts and Architecture; Cultural Sciences; History and Archaeology; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Through this research, I intend to investigate the fascinating domain of Ayahuasca documentary films. This emerging subgenre showcases explorers and scientists reconnecting with nature and spirituality, which I introduced to the reader through my explorative one-year master's thesis, A Study of Ayahuasca Documentary Film (2020). READ MORE

5. 4. Migrant in Limbo : An investigation into the dehumanisation of the migrant figure during migration and integration as shown through the short stories of Hassan Blasim

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)

   Author : Rowena Blythe; [2022]
   Keywords : Migrant; migration; integration; dehumanisation; animalisation; performance; limbo; belonging; trauma; commoditisation; literature; Hassan Blasim; Iraq; Europe.;

   Abstract : In 2000, Iraqi-born film director, poet and author Hassan Blasim fled Iraq to escape persecution for his films on the forced migration of Kurds by Saddam Hussein's regime. After travelling through Europe for four years, he was granted asylum in Finland. READ MORE

6. 5. Mirror, Mirror : Embodying the sexed posthuman body of becoming in Sion Sono’s Antiporno (アンチポルノ, 2016) and Mika Ninagawa’s Helter Skelter (ヘルタースケルター, 2012)

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Zara Luna Hjelm; [2021]
   Keywords : internalized gaze of oppression; Sion Sono; Mika Ninagawa; Antiporno; Helter Skelter; Japanese cinema; film analysis; gender; plastic surgery; beauty standards; body commodification; self-objectification; Japan; becoming; cyborg feminism; the charmed circle; masculine domination; j-horror; pinku egia; ego guro nansensu; shojo manga; BDSM;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the embodiment of the sexed body and the struggle of fitting into the narrow frames of what a woman is supposed to behave and look like in Japanese cinema. Using the medium of film, I, therefore, seek to produce knowledge regarding the internalized gaze of the oppressor, and self-objectification, caused by the capitalist heteropatriarchy. READ MORE