CCT314H5 Lecture Notes - Susan Sontag, Existential Crisis, Erectile Dysfunction
12 May 2013
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Contradiction: we must represent trauma, we cannot ever really represent trauma, example: the holocaust (1939-1945) Film is the illusion that gives authenticity. However, there is always some degree of manipulation and distortion. The holocaust the most difficult story to put on film. This is because it is only understood by people who lived through the camps. It is never going to be as bad as it was, you will never be able to portray it. The dilemma is, should you not portray it. Films would be controversial because sometimes they want to show a relief and more palatable, however the truth is much less approachable. Often they have been abused, locked up somewhere, many number of things happened to them: frueld"s work on trauma developed in his work with victims of shell-shock" during and after world war i. Shell shocked" patients from the war (injured by explosions physically or mentally) exhibited similar symptoms: soldiers.
