Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction
Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film Amresh Sinha Terence McSweeney 1
Virtual and Prosthetic Memory
1 Time, Memory and Movement in Gaspar Noé's Irreversible Paul Atkinson 17
2 Reconstructing Memory: Visual Virtuality in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Steven Rawle 37
3 Death Every Sunday Afternoon: The Virtual Memories of Hirokazu Kore-Eda's Afterlife Alanna Thain 55
4 'Prosthetic Memory' and Transnational Cinema: Globalised Identity and Narrative Recursivity in City of God Russell J. A. Kilbourn 71
Traumatic and Allegorical Memory
5 Impossible Memory: Traumatic Narratives in Memento and Mulholland Drive Belinda Morrissey 97
6 Memories of a Catastrophe: Trauma and the Name in Mira Nair's the Namesake Amresh Sinha 117
7 The Future at Odds with The Past: Journey through the Ruins of Memory in Alkinos Tsilimodos's Tom White Warwick Mules 139
8 Filming the Past, Present and Future of an African Village: Ousmane Sembene's Moolaadé David Murphy 156
Historical and Cultural Memory
9 'The Unquiet Dead': Memories of the Spanish Civil War in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth Jonathan Ellis Ana María Sánchez-Arce 173
10 Rewind: The Will to Remember, the Will to Forget in Michael Haneke's Caché Jehanne-Marie Gavarini 192
11 Memory, Nostalgia and the Feminine: In the Mood for Love and Those Qipaos Lynda Chapple 209
12 Memory as Cultural Battleground in Park Chan-Wook's Oldboy Terence McSweeney 222
Index 239
