Title Perpetrator cinema : confronting genocide in Cambodian documentary

Published London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Series Nonfictions Nonfictions. Contents Introduction : Defining Perpetrator Cinema -- Post-Khmer Rouge Cambodian Cinema and the Big Perpetrators : Reconciliation or Resentment? -- Perpetratorhood Paradigms : The Duel and Moral Resentment -- Gendered Genocide : The Female Perpetrator, Forced Marriage and Rape -- Epilogue : The Era of Perpetrator Ethics Summary "Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films documenting the Holocaust and genocides in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and elsewhere have focused on collecting and foregrounding the testimony of survivors and victims, the intimate horror of the autogenocide enables post-Khmer Rouge Cambodian documentarians to propose a direct confrontation between the first-generation survivor and the perpetrator of genocide. These films break with Western tradition and disrupt the political view that reconciliation is the only legitimate response to atrocities of the past. Rather, transcending the perpetrator's typical denial or partial confession, this extraordinary form of "duel" documentary creates confrontational tension and opens up the possibility of a transformation in power relations, allowing viewers to access feelings of moral resentment. Raya Morag examines works by Rithy Panh, Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, and Lida Chan and Guillaume Suon, among others, to uncover the ways in which filmmakers endeavor to allow the survivors' moral status and courage to guide viewers to a new, more complete understanding of the processes of coming to terms with the past. These documentaries show how moral resentment becomes a way to experience, symbolize, judge, and finally incorporate evil into a system of ethics. Morag's analysis reveals how perpetrator cinema provides new epistemic tools and propels the recent social-cultural-psychological shift from the era of the witness to the era of the perpetrator"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Genocide in motion pictures. Documentary films -- Cambodia -- History and criticism Genocide -- Cambodia Mass murderers -- Cambodia -- Psychology Political atrocities -- Cambodia PERFORMING ARTS -- Film -- Genres -- Historical. Documentary films Genocide Genocide in motion pictures Mass murderers -- Psychology Motion pictures Political atrocities Politics and government SUBJECT Cambodia -- In motion pictures Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1975-1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019095 Cambodia -- History -- 1975-1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019092 Subject Cambodia Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780231851176 0231851170

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