Trauma as trademark : the textual and extratextual significance of psychological wounds in Roman Polanski's films

This study deals with the representation of traumatic experience in Roman Polanski's oeuvre. I focus particularly on four films: Chinatown (1974), Bitter Moon (1992), Death & the Maiden (1994), and The Pianist (2002). My argument is that in these films, trauma acts not only as a textual (th...

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Main Author: Timmermann, Lisa
Format: Others
Published: 2007
Online Access:http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/975599/1/MR34466.pdf
Timmermann, Lisa <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/Timmermann=3ALisa=3A=3A.html> (2007) Trauma as trademark : the textual and extratextual significance of psychological wounds in Roman Polanski's films. Masters thesis, Concordia University.