The Cinema of Rithy Panh : : Everything Has a Soul / / Joseph Mai, Leslie Barnes; ed. by Joseph Mai, Leslie Barnes.

Born in 1964, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh grew up in the midst of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal reign of terror, which claimed the lives of many of his relatives. After escaping to France, where he attended film school, he returned to his homeland in the late 1980s and began work on the documentari...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Global Film Directors
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • CHRONOLOGY
  • Introduction: Rithy Panh and the Cinematic Image
  • Part I: Aftermath: A Cinema of Postwar Survival
  • 1 The “Mad Mother” in Rithy Panh’s Films
  • 2 Resilience in the Ruins: Artistic Practice in Rithy Panh’s The Burnt Theatre
  • 3 The Wounds of Memory: Poetics, Pain, and Possibilities in Rithy Panh’s Exile and Que la barque se brise
  • Part II: From Colonial to Global Cambodia
  • 4 Rithy Panh’s The Sea Wall: Reinventing Duras in Cambodia
  • 5 Rithy Panh as Chasseur d’images
  • 6 Aerial Aftermaths and Reckonings from Below: Reseeing Rithy Panh’s Shiiku, the Catch
  • 7 Cambodia’s “Wandering Souls”: Migrant Labor and the Promise of Connection
  • Part III: The Question of Justice
  • 8 Archiving the Perpetrator
  • 9 Creating Duch: The Projects of Duch, François Bizot, and Rithy Panh
  • 10 Rithy Panh, Jean Améry, and the Paradigm of Moral Resentment
  • Part IV: Memory, Voice, and Cinematic Practice
  • 11 Looking Back and Projecting Forward from Site 2
  • 12 Bophana’s Image and Narrative: Tragedy, Accusatory Gaze, and Hidden Treasure
  • 13 Memory Translation: Rithy Panh’s Provocations to the Primacy and Virtues of the Documentary Sound/Image Index
  • 14 Rithy Panh: Storyteller of the Extreme
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index