Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film Book

Acknowledgements ix

Notes on Contributors xi

Introduction

Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film Amresh Sinha Terence McSweeney 1

Virtual and Prosthetic Memory

1 Time, Memory and Movement in Gaspar Noé's Irreversible Paul Atkinson 17

2 Reconstructing Memory: Visual Virtuality in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Steven Rawle 37

3 Death Every Sunday Afternoon: The Virtual Memories of Hirokazu Kore-Eda's Afterlife Alanna Thain 55

4 'Prosthetic Memory' and Transnational Cinema: Globalised Identity and Narrative Recursivity in City of God Russell J. A. Kilbourn 71

Traumatic and Allegorical Memory

5 Impossible Memory: Traumatic Narratives in Memento and Mulholland Drive Belinda Morrissey 97

6 Memories of a Catastrophe: Trauma and the Name in Mira Nair's the Namesake Amresh Sinha 117

7 The Future at Odds with The Past: Journey through the Ruins of Memory in Alkinos Tsilimodos's Tom White Warwick Mules 139

8 Filming the Past, Present and Future of an African Village: Ousmane Sembene's Moolaadé David Murphy 156

Historical and Cultural Memory

9 'The Unquiet Dead': Memories of the Spanish Civil War in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth Jonathan Ellis Ana María Sánchez-Arce 173

10 Rewind: The Will to Remember, the Will to Forget in Michael Haneke's Caché Jehanne-Marie Gavarini 192

11 Memory, Nostalgia and the Feminine: In the Mood for Love and Those Qipaos Lynda Chapple 209

12 Memory as Cultural Battleground in Park Chan-Wook's Oldboy Terence McSweeney 222

Index 239