 | Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary Subjects: Genocide in motion pictures; Documentary films -- Cambodia -- History and criticism; Genocide -- Cambodia; Mass murderers -- Cambodia -- Psychology; Political atrocities -- Cambodia; Cambodia -- In motion pictures; Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1; Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Raya Morag analyzes how Post-Khmer Rouge Cambodian documentarians propose a direct confrontation between the first-generation survivor and the perpetrator of genocide. Raya Morag is associate professor of cinema studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is author of Defeated Masculinity: Post-Traumatic Cinema in the Aftermath of War (2009) and Waltzing with Bashir: Perpetrator Trauma and Cinema (2013). |
