{"product_id":"the-british-trauma-film-adam-plummer-9798765100516","title":"The British Trauma Film: Psychoanalysis and Popular British Cinema in the Immediate Aftermath of the Second World War","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile the historical influence of psychoanalysis on Hollywood cinema has received considerable attention, the same cannot be said for its influence on British cinema. This book examines the central position that psychoanalysis occupies in British cinema in the years immediately following the Second World War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlummer uses a critical theory framework to understand the role that psychoanalysis plays in British culture at this time as an historical discourse, and in British cinema as a narrative, a cultural, and an ideological discourse. He defines these as arising within various areas of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking related to traumatic wartime experience, sexual difference, and the interplay between subjectivity and objectivity. He analyzes six British films of the period: \u003ci\u003eThe Halfway House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDead of Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Seventh Veil\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMadonna of the Seven Moons\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThey Made Me a Fugitive\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMine Own Executioner\u003c\/i\u003e and demonstrates how psychoanalysis operates within them as a narrative and formal structuring mechanism. He argues that this engagement enables these films to begin to address the emotional fallout of the war by creating safe representational spaces where contemporary audiences could engage with their own traumatic experiences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile \u003ci\u003eThe British Trauma Film\u003c\/i\u003e defines psychoanalysis as providing a language for British cinema at this time to confront the effects of wartime trauma, it finds that it also operates within a normalizing ideological system designed to reproduce dominant pre-war relations of political, social, and sexual power. However, in this group of films, this system is often countered by subversive discursive forces that seem to be immanent to the films themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Plummer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798765100516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d","brand":"Adam Plummer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47425532199167,"sku":"9798765100516","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d39135c1-9ae0-4659-9295-8b5734f44c80.jpg?v=1761539877","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-british-trauma-film-adam-plummer-9798765100516","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}