Book Description"This book will have significant impact in film and media studies because Kaplan so skillfully translates the most interesting work done in trauma studies and takes it in new and original directions It is illuminating, lucid,and persuasive "Patrice Petro, author of Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film огиеп History "This book is an engaging reada real page-turnernot only because of its conversational style and beautiful prose but also because it addresses some of the most complex psychological issues facing our culture today "Kelly Oliver, W Alton Jones Professor, Vanderbilt University It may be said that every trauma is two traumas or ten thousanddepending on the number of people involved How one experiences and reacts to an event is unique and depends largely on ones direct or indirect positioning, personal psychic history, and individual memories But equally important to the experience of trauma are the broader political and cultural contexts within which a catastrophe takes place and how it is "managed" by institutional forces, including the media In Trauma Culture, E Ann Kaplan explores the relationship between the impact of trauma on individuals and on entire cultures and nations Arguing that humans possess a compelling need to draw meaning from personal experience and to communicate what happens to others, she examines the artistic, literary, and cinematic forms that are often used to bridge the individual and collective experience A number of case studies, including Sigmund Freuds Moses and Monotheism, Marguerite Duras La Douleur, Sarah Kofmans Rue Ordener, Rue Labat, Alfred Hitchcocks Spellbound, and Tracey Moffatts Night Cries, reveal howempathy can be fostered without the sensationalistic element that typifies the media From World War II to 9/11, this passionate study eloquently navigates the contentious debates surrounding trauma theory and persuasively advocates the responsible sharing and translating of catastrophe.  Книга является2005 г 192 стр ISBN 0813535913.