Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Towards a Poetics of Conflict in Film

   • Adriana Martins, Alexandra Lopes, Mónica Dias

   Pages 1-18

3. Managing Oblivion and Silence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-20

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   2. Post-conflict Cinema: Beyond Truth and Reconciliation?

      • Thomas Elsaesser

      Pages 21-42

   3. The Sovereign’s Broken Voice. On the Cinematic Politics of Representation

      • Isabel Capeloa Gil

      Pages 43-59

   4. Long Is the Road: Politics of Memory in an Early Jewish-German Postwar Film

      • Geesa Marie Tuch

      Pages 61-73

   5. Cinema and Conflict in Postcolonial Mozambique: Archival Images as Illustration and Evidence in Estas São as Armas (1978)

      • Robert Stock

      Pages 75-91

   6. ‘What’s This War in the Heart of Nature?’ Fire, Water, Earth and Air in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line

      • Frank A. Anselmo

      Pages 93-105

4. Coping with Terrorism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-109

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   2. The Trauma of Terrorism: Post 9/11 Hollywood Cinema

      • Thomas Riegler

      Pages 111-122

   3. A Letter to Osama bin Laden. On Healing and Conciliation in Sharon Maguire’s Incendiary

      • Mónica Dias

      Pages 123-135

   4. Memory and Representation: Japanese Terrorism in Distance and United Red Army

      • Nuno Barradas Jorge

      Pages 137-144

   5. Narrative Outbreak in Contemporary Conflict Cinema: A Case Study of Steve McQueen’s Hunger

      • Alessandro Zir

      Pages 145-156

5. Bodies in Transit

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-159

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   2. A Look Back or a Look Ahead? Cinematographic Approaches Toward the ‘Refugee Problem’ in Post-War Germany

      • Alina Laura Tiews

      Pages 161-176

   3. Londres en Colère. Of ‘Translated (Wo)men’, Cinema and the City of Our (Dis)content

      • Alexandra Lopes

      Pages 177-186

   4. A Palestinian Film We Call Home: Women’s Cinematic Bodies Out of Place

      • Shahd Wadi

      Pages 187-193

   5. Challenging Notions of War: Sexual Exploitation of Eastern Migrants in Promised Land

      • Júlia Garraio

      Pages 195-206

6. Back Matter

   Pages 207-219

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Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema is a transdisciplinary volume that addresses the cinematic mediation of a wide range of conflicts. From World War II and its aftermath to the exploration of colonial and post-colonial experiences and more recent forms of terrorism, it debates the possibilities, constraints and efficacy of the discursive practices this mediation entails. Despite its variety and amplitude in scope and width, the innovative and singular aspect of the book lies in the fact that the essays give voice to a variety of regions, issues, and filmmaking processes that tend either to remain on the outskirts of the publishing world and/or to be granted only partial visibility in volumes of regional cinema.

• post-conflict
• cinema
• representations of war and conflict
• limits of representation
• materiality of cinema
• World War II
• colonial
• post-colonial

“Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema delivers on its promise to present analyses of the representation in cinema of diverse types of conflict from a wide range of academic perspectives, whilst always considering the expressive specificity of a medium which, due to its complexity and effectiveness, may be used to promote criticism, clarification and revision of concepts (among them, those of conflict and post-conflict), but also to shape sometimes necessary and mystifying narratives.” (João Pedro Vicente Faustino, Portuguese Studies, Vol. 34 (02), 2018)

• Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal

  Adriana Martins, Alexandra Lopes, Mónica Dias

Adriana Martins teaches Culture & Globalization, Portuguese Film and Portuguese Culture at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Film Studies and Culture Studies are among her research interests. Her latest book is Plots of War: Modern Narratives of Conflict (co-edited with I. C. Gil, 2012). 


Alexandra Lopes teaches Theories of Culture, Translation History and Theory at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Her research interests are literary translation, translation history and culture studies. She has published on culture and translation studies, as well as translations of works by Peter Handke, Hertha Müller, William Boyd, Salman Rushdie. 


Mónica Dias currently works in the field of Democracy Studies, Peace Studies and International Conflict at . Her recent book is Gender Violence in Armed Conflict (co-edited with Carla Gomes and Francisco Leandro, 2013).

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