Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. CHRONOLOGY vii
4. Introduction: Rithy Panh and the Cinematic Image 1
5. Part I: Aftermath: A Cinema of Postwar Survival
6. 1 The “Mad Mother” in Rithy Panh’s Films 17
7. 2 Resilience in the Ruins: Artistic Practice in Rithy Panh’s The Burnt Theatre 32
8. 3 The Wounds of Memory: Poetics, Pain, and Possibilities in Rithy Panh’s Exile and Que la barque se brise 46
9. Part II: From Colonial to Global Cambodia
10. 4 Rithy Panh’s The Sea Wall: Reinventing Duras in Cambodia 61
11. 5 Rithy Panh as Chasseur d’images 72
12. 6 Aerial Aftermaths and Reckonings from Below: Reseeing Rithy Panh’s Shiiku, the Catch 86
13. 7 Cambodia’s “Wandering Souls”: Migrant Labor and the Promise of Connection 99
14. Part III: The Question of Justice
15. 8 Archiving the Perpetrator 117
16. 9 Creating Duch: The Projects of Duch, François Bizot, and Rithy Panh 131
17. 10 Rithy Panh, Jean Améry, and the Paradigm of Moral Resentment 144
18. Part IV: Memory, Voice, and Cinematic Practice
19. 11 Looking Back and Projecting Forward from Site 2 161
20. 12 Bophana’s Image and Narrative: Tragedy, Accusatory Gaze, and Hidden Treasure 173
21. 13 Memory Translation: Rithy Panh’s Provocations to the Primacy and Virtues of the Documentary Sound/Image Index 188
22. 14 Rithy Panh: Storyteller of the Extreme 202
23. Acknowledgments 215
24. Bibliography 217
25. Notes on Contributors 229
26. Index 233