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Trauma, Latency and Amnesia

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Memory, Forgetting and the Moving Image

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Drawing on the debate surrounding the representability of trauma, the chapter examines the film paradigm in the laboratory study of intrusive traumatic memories and the role that a film has played in their definition and theorization. The chapter asks why the film goes unnoticed despite the acknowledgement of the studies that it supported drawing attention to transcultural articulations of amnesia and latency in globalized politics of memorialization. The chapter expands this discussion by examining three works by sound artist and filmmaker Shona Illingworth that interrogate the individual, social, cultural and transcultural dynamics of memory in terms of traumatic memories, latency and amnesia and contested sites of remembrance. Illingworth’s works, developed in dialogue with neuro-psychologist Martin Conway, create immersive visual and acoustic environments that are viscerally affecting.

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Albano, C. (2016). Trauma, Latency and Amnesia. In: Memory, Forgetting and the Moving Image. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36588-0_3

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