Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film advances a methodological line of inquiry based on a fresh insight into the ways in which cinematic meaning is generated and can be ascertained. Premised on a critical reading strategy informed by a metapsychology of secrets the book features analyses of internationally acclaimed films-Guillermo del Torro’s Pan’s Labyrinth Andrey Zvyagintsev’s The Return Jee-woon Kim’s A Tale of Two Sisters and Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others. It demonstrates how a rethinking of the figure of the secret in national film yields a new vantage point for examining heretofore unrecognized connections between collective historical experience cinematic production and a transnational aesthetic of concealment and hiding.|Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film | Media & Cultural Studies
