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.