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María Gil Poisa Texas A&M University WHAT DO WE FEAR? TRAUMA, PAST AND THE MONSTER PERSPECTIVES
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Trauma: NOUN (plural traumas or traumata /- m ə t ə /) 1. Deeply distressing or disturbing experience 1.1 Emotional shock following a stressful event or a physical injury, which may lead to long-term neurosis WHAT DO WE FEAR? María Gil Poisa - Texas A&M University
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Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922) The Devils’s Backbone (Guillermo del Toro, 2001) Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006) WHAT DO WE FEAR? María Gil Poisa - Texas A&M University
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“most of the time, collective memory […] is not the memory of large groups. States do not remember, individuals do” (Winter 4) Winter, Jay. Remembering War. Ann Arbor: Yale University Press, 2006. WHAT DO WE FEAR? María Gil Poisa - Texas A&M University
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Kaes, Anton. Shell Shock Cinema. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2009. Eyerman, Ron. “Social Theory and Trauma”. Acta Sociológica, 2013, 56(1),41- 53. WHAT DO WE FEAR? María Gil Poisa - Texas A&M University
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World War I (1914-1918)Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) WHAT DO WE FEAR? María Gil Poisa - Texas A&M University
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) WHAT DO WE FEAR? María Gil Poisa - Texas A&M University
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Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922) The Devils’s Backbone (Guillermo del Toro, 2001) Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006) WHAT DO WE FEAR? María Gil Poisa - Texas A&M University
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WHAT DO WE FEAR? María Gil Poisa - Texas A&M University Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
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WHAT DO WE FEAR? María Gil Poisa - Texas A&M University Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
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WHAT DO WE FEAR? María Gil Poisa - Texas A&M University Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
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Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006) The Devils’s Backbone (Guillermo del Toro, 2001) WHAT DO WE FEAR? María Gil Poisa - Texas A&M University
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WHAT DO WE FEAR? María Gil Poisa - Texas A&M University The Devils’s Backbone (Guillermo del Toro, 2001)
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WHAT DO WE FEAR? María Gil Poisa - Texas A&M University Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
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Further bibliography Blake, Linnie. The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008. Broderick, Mich and Antonio Traverso (ed.). Interrogating Trauma. Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media. New York: Routledge, 2011. Carroll, Noël. “The Nature of Horror”. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1987, Vol.46(1), pp.51- 59. Cohen, Jeffrey. Monster Theory: Reading Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. Curry, Richard. “La confrontación del trauma colectivo en el cine español contemporáneo.” En torno a la censura franquista. Madrid: Pliegos, 2006. 33-49. Eisner, Lotte H. The Haunted Screen. California: University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969. Print. Eyerman, Ron. “Social Theory and Trauma”. Acta Sociológica, 2013, 56(1),41-53. Freud, Sigmund (1917). “Duelo y melancolía”. Obras Completas, Tomo XIV, Buenos Aires: Amorrortu Editores. Isenberg, Noah. Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Lowenstein, Adam. Shocking Representation. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. O’Hara, Jessica. “Making Their Presence Known. TV’s Ghost-Hunter Phenomenon in a “Post-World””. The Philosophy of Horror. Ed. Thomas Fahy. Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2010. 72-86. WHAT DO WE FEAR? María Gil Poisa - Texas A&M University
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