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Proposed 5 minute presentation: JOHN BROUGHTON (Cultural Studies/Film and Education Research Academy, Teachers College: jmb61@columbia.edu; 

    cf. http://blogs.tc.columbia.edu/fera).

This 5 minute presentation will delineate several ways in which trauma is central to recent everyday life: HIV, car accidents, construction site disasters, terrorist attacks, domestic calamities, and school violence, among others. How are traumatisation, retraumatisation, and their treatment enacted or misunderstood in film and on TV: Fearless, Lost, Harry Potter, In Treatment, Dexter, Knife in the Head, American Idol, America's Funniest Home Videos, Half Nelson, Elephant, Man on Fire, Collateral Damage, Strange Days, Hurt Locker, Three Kings, Family Guy, The Patriot, The Cell, Inland Empire. The intersection of sex and violence are particularly important in evoking a sense of the traumatic. The notions of "impulse image" and "mimesis" will be used to show how visual culture allows trauma to be emotionally activated in a partially retraumatised audience. 

   [So sorry I can't be there for the big day! Pls keep me on the list however.]
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