TY - BOOK ID - 9531546 TI - Shocking Representation : Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film PY - 2005 SN - 0231132468 0231132476 PB - New York Columbia University Press DB - UniCat KW - Horror films KW - Motion pictures and history. KW - History and criticism. KW - Adam Lowenstein KW - film KW - horror KW - horrorfilms KW - film en geschiedenis KW - gender studies KW - trauma KW - psychologie KW - film en psychologie KW - Franju Georges KW - Powell Michael KW - Kaneto Shindo KW - Craven Wes KW - Cronenberg David KW - Ground Zero KW - 9/11 KW - 791.43 KW - Motion pictures and history KW - History and motion pictures KW - Moving-pictures and history KW - History KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9531546 AB - In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju, Michael Powell, Shindo Kaneto, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg. He shows that through allegorical representations these directors' films confronted and challenged comforting historical narratives and notions of national identity intended to soothe public anxieties in the aftermat ER -