Millennial Cinema

A strikingly original collection that does a lot to illuminate the elusive, inescapable matter of memory. In essay after distinctive essay, the authors explore the forms, complexities and ruses of memory in the medium that rivals literature as the best suited to engage it: film. And the truly global scope guarantees that the whole is greater than the sum of its formidable parts. -- Ian Balfour, York University

In spite of the overwhelming interest in the study of memory and trauma, no single volume has yet explored the centrality of memory to films of this era in a global context; this volume is the first anthology devoted exclusively to the study of memory in twenty-first-century cinema. Combining individual readings and interdisciplinary methodologies, this book offers new analyses of memory and trauma in some of the most discussed and debated films of the new millennium: Pan's Labyrinth (2006), The Namesake (2006), Hidden (2005), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Oldboy (2003), City of God (2002), Irreversible (2002), Mulholland Drive (2001), Memento (2000), and In the Mood for Love (2000).