Film, Trauma and Reconciliation - Online Resources

A Web Based Resource produced as Part of British Academy Newton Mobility Grant

by Dr. Hulya Adak (Sabanci University) and Dr. Murat Akser (Ulster University)

Films:

Films Dealing with the Trauma of 1915

Ravished Armenia (1919, Oscar Apfel)

Nahapet (1977, Henrik Malyan)

Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1982, Sarky Mouradian)

Ararat (2002, Atom Egoyan)

Screamers (2006, Carla Garapedian)

The Lark Farm (2007, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)

Grandma's Tattoos (2011, Suzanne Khardalian)

The Cut (2014, Fatih Akin)

1915 (2015, Alec Mouhibian, Garin Hovannisian)

The Promise (2016, Terry George)

The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017, Joseph Ruben)

Intent to Destroy (2017, Joe Berlinger)

Films Dealing with Trauma and Eastern Turkey

Yol (1981, Yilmaz Guney/Serif Goren)

My Marlon and Brando (2008, Huseyin Karabey)

The Storm (2008, Kazim Oz)

Were Dengê Min: Come To My Voice (2014, Huseyin Karabey)

Films Dealing with the Northern Ireland Troubles

The Crying Game (1992, Neil Jordan)

Some Mother's Son (1996, Terry George)

Bloody Sunday (2002, Paul Greengrass)

Hunger (2002, Steve McQueen)

Five Minutes of Heaven (2009, Oliver Hirschbiegel)

Good Vibrations (2012, Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn)

'71' (2014, Yann Demange)

Maze (2017, Stephen Burke)

Books:

Janet walker Trauma Cinema

Trauma and Reconciliation in Turkish Film

Koksal, Ozlem. Aesthetics of displacement: Turkey and its minorities on screen. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Nas, Alparslan. 2018. Media Representations of the Cultural Other in Turkey. Palgrave.

Slide, Anthony, and Atom Egoyan. Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian. University Press of Mississippi, 2014.

Trauma and Reconciliation in Irish Film

Barton, Ruth. Irish cinema in the twenty-first century. Manchester University Press, 2020.

Ging, Debbie. Men and masculinities in Irish cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Hill, John. Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics. BFI, 2006.

Monahan, Barry, ed. Ireland and Cinema: Culture and Contexts. Springer, 2015.

Pettitt, Lance. Screening Ireland: film and television representation. Manchester University Press, 2000.

Shaw, Tony. Cinematic terror: a global history of terrorism on film. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2014.

Articles:

Trauma and Reconciliation in Turkish Film

Baron, Lawrence. "The Armenian-Jewish Connection: The Influence of Holocaust Cinema on Feature Films about the Armenian Genocide." The Holocaust: Memories and History (2016): 289-310.

Baronian, Marie-Aude. "Image, displacement, prosthesis: reflections on making visual archives of the Armenian genocide." Photographies 3.2 (2010): 205-223.

Heckner, Elke. "Screening the Armenian Genocide: Atom Egoyan's Ararat between Erasure and Suture." Shofar 28.4 (2010): 133-145.

Koçer, Suncem. “Kurdish Cinema As A Transnational Discourse Genre: Cinematic Visibility, Cultural Resilience, And Political Agency.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 46, no. 3, 2014, pp. 473–488., doi:10.1017/S0020743814000555.

Markovitz, Jonathan. "Ararat and collective memories of the Armenian genocide." Holocaust and Genocide Studies 20.2 (2006): 235-255.

Smets, Kevin and Akkaya, Ahmet Hamdi 2016. Media and violent conflict: Halil Dağ, Kurdish insurgency, and the hybridity of vernacular cinema of conflict. Media, War & Conflict, Vol. 9, Issue. 1, p. 76.

Tanrıvermiş, Şenay. "Silent Representation of Kurdish Identity in Cinema Through" Sarmaşık (Ivy)”." International Journal of Kurdish Studies 6.1 (2020).

Torchin, Leshu. Creating the witness: Documenting genocide on film, video, and the Internet. University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Trauma and Reconciliation in Irish Film

Barton, Ruth. "Troubles Cinema: Five Minutes of Heaven." Estudios Irlandeses-Journal of Irish Studies 5 (2010): 213-216.

Cormack, Aisling B. "Toward a" Post-Troubles" Cinema?: The Troubled Intersection of Political Violence and Gender in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game and Breakfast on Pluto." Éire-Ireland 49.1 (2014): 164-192.

Crosson, Seán. "All this must come to an end. Through talking: dialogue and troubles cinema." The Crossings of Art: Aesthetics and Culture in Ireland. Peter Lang, 2014.

Fox, Ken. "Reclaiming the Irish border in contemporary cinema." Australasian Journal of Irish Studies 20 (2020).

Neve, Brian. "Cinema, the ceasefire and ‘the troubles’." Irish Studies Review 5.20 (1997): 2-8.

Legg, George. "‘The brightest spot in Ulster’: Total history and the H-Blocks in film." Northern Ireland and the politics of boredom. Manchester University Press, 2018.

Archives:

CAIN Web Service - Conflict and Politics in Northern Ireland. https://cain.ulster.ac.uk

Troubles Archive: http://www.troublesarchive.com/