Cinema of Rithy Panh

Everything Has a Soul

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Nominated for 2022 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book awardBorn 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 documentaries and fiction films that have made him Cambodia’s most celebrated living director.The fourteen essays in The Cinema of Rithy Panh explore the filmmaker’s unique aesthetic sensibility, examining the dynamic and sensuous images through which he suggests that “everything has a soul.” They consider how Panh represents Cambodia’s traumatic past, combining forms of individual and collective remembrance, and the implications of this past for Cambodia’s transition into a global present. Covering documentary and feature films, including his literary adaptations of Marguerite Duras and Kenzaburō Ōe, they examine how Panh’s attention to local context leads to a deep understanding of such major themes in global cinema as justice, imperialism, diaspora, gender, and labor. Offering fresh takes on masterworks like The Missing Picture and S-21 while also shining a light on the director’s lesser-known films, The Cinema of Rithy Panh will give readers a new appreciation for the boundless creativity and ethical sensitivity of one of Southeast Asia’s cinematic visionaries.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-07-16
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt4 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobal Film Directors
Antal sidor254
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9781978809802

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LESLIE BARNES is senior lecturer of French studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. She is the author of Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature. Her current project studies literary and cinematic narratives that engage with questions of sex work, mobility, and human rights in Southeast Asia. JOSEPH MAI is an associate professor of French with an affiliation in world cinema at Clemson University in South Carolina. He is the author of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Robert GuÉdiguian. His scholarship examines intersections between ethics, aesthetics, cinema, and literature.

ChronologyIntroduction: Rithy Panh and the Cinematic ImageLeslie Barnes and Joseph MaiPart I: Aftermath: A Cinema of Post-War Survival1. The “Mad Mother” in Rithy Panh’s FilmsBoreth Ly2. Resilience in the Ruins: Artistic Practice in Rithy Panh’s The Burnt TheaterJoseph Mai3. The Wounds of Memory: Poetics, Pain, and Possibilities in Rithy Panh’s Exile and Que la barque se briseKhatharya UmPart II: From Colonial to Global Cambodia4. Rithy Panh’s The Sea Wall: Reinventing Duras in CambodiaJack A. Yeager and Rachel Harrison5. Rithy Panh as Chasseur d’imagesJennifer Cazenave6. Aerial Aftermaths and Reckonings from Below: Reseeing Rithy Panh’s Shiiku, the CatchCathy J. Schlund-Vials7. Cambodia's "Wandering Souls": Migrant Labor and the Promise of ConnectionLeslie BarnesPart III: The Question of Justice8. Archiving the PerpetratorStÉphanie Benzaquen-Gautier and John Kleinen9. Creating Duch: The Projects of Duch, FranÇois Bizot, and Rithy PanhDonald Reid10. Rithy Panh, Jean AmÉry, and the Paradigm of Moral ResentmentRaya MoragPart IV: Memory, Voice, and Cinematic Practice11. Looking Back and Projecting Forward from Site 2Lindsay French12. Bophana’s Image and Narrative: Tragedy, Accusatory Gaze, and Hidden TreasureVicente SÁnchez-Biosca 13. Memory Translation: Rithy Panh’s Provocations to the Primacy and Virtues of theDocumentary Sound/Image IndexDavid LaRocca14. Rithy Panh: Storyteller of the ExtremeSoko PhayAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

"In this brilliant volume, sixteen scholars explore camera, voice, memory and witness in Rithy Panh’s extraordinary cinema. Frame by frame, their essays reveal Panh as a global director, and Cambodia’s most gifted chronicler."- Penny Edwards (author of Cambodge: The cultivation of a nation 1860-1945) "In this brilliant volume, sixteen scholars explore camera, voice, memory and witness in Rithy Panh’s extraordinary cinema. Frame by frame, their essays reveal Panh as a global director, and Cambodia’s most gifted chronicler."- Penny Edwards (author of Cambodge: The cultivation of a nation 1860-1945)