The dissertation's case study is on a repertoire of American and European war related films featuring effigy-like female characters. The repertoire of films is investigated as a cinematic making of cultural trauma in a cyclical response to a series of catastrophic wars and to the advancement of women in the leading Western societies. Central to the case study is the question of whether the effigy-like female character stands for an inverted or deflected self-image of the society engulfed in the men's business of war. The methodological approach adopted in this investigation is an interdisciplinary one. It is derived from Claude Lévi-Strauss' study of the 'deep logic' of myth-narratives, Carl Jung's notion of 'a contra-sexual figure' in the production of an inverted self-image, and Erwin Panofsky's iconographic study of the visual form. Conceptually, it is grounded in a brief examination of form-productive activities via the notion of signifying practices as advocated by Stuart Hall. In the dissertation, it is also demonstrated that the cinematic production of the effigy-like female character as an inverted self-image of the society has resorted to the narrative/visual resources valorized by the long-standing practices in the tradition of Western humanities. In this regard, it may be said that the cinematic making of 'cultural trauma' is not entirely a modern invention but a collective representation culturally inherited. / A Dissertation submitted to the Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Summer Semester, 2013. / March 18, 2013. / Advancement of Women, Cultural Trauma, Signifying Practices,
Wars / Includes bibliographical references. / Michael Uzendoski, Professor Directing Dissertation; Lauren Weingarden, University Representative; David Johnson, Committee Member; Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Committee Member; Reinier Leushuis, Committee Member.
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| Contributors | Wang, Yiyi (authoraut), Uzendoski, Michael (professor directing dissertation), Weingarden, Lauren (university representative), Johnson, David (committee member), Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla (committee member), Leushuis, Reinier (committee member), Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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