This volume explores the multifaceted depiction and staging of historical and social traumata as the result of extreme violence within national contexts. It foc

How the modern horror film has represented the social conflicts left in the wake of national trauma.

'Trauma Cinema' focuses on a new breed of documentary films that adopt catastrophe as their subject matter & trauma as their aesthetic. Walker uses incest & the

The wounds of nations: Horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international

Film has taken a powerful position alongside the global environmental movement, from didactic documentaries to the fantasy pleasures of commercial franchises. T