Between Past and Present: Cultural Trauma in "Fences" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom".

Mgr. Nona Petrosyan

Master's thesis

Anotácia:

The main aim of this thesis is to analyze the representation of African American cultural trauma in the movie adaptations of Fences and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Taking into account the historical setting discussed in the first main chapter and theoretical background information on trauma studies analyzed in the second main chapter, the thesis will equally focus on the narrative and visual representation in the chapters dedicated to movie analysis to find traces of cultural trauma and intergenerational transmission in screen and narrative.

Abstract:

The main aim of this thesis is to analyze the representation of African American cultural trauma in the movie adaptations of Fences and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Taking into account the historical setting discussed in the first main chapter and theoretical background information on trauma studies analyzed in the second main chapter, the thesis will equally focus on the narrative and visual representation in the chapters dedicated to movie analysis to find traces of cultural trauma and intergenerational transmission in screen and narrative.

Keywords

Trauma, cultural trauma, trauma cinema, intergenerational trauma, post-traumatic slave syndrome, racial inequality

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 25. 5. 2022

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 14. 6. 2022
• Vedúci: doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D.
• Oponent: B.A. Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel

Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Master programme / odbor:
North-American Culture Studies / Anglophone and Hispanophone Area Studies