Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper considers how subtextual suggestions of childhood abuse overshadow the centrally presented narratives of sex addiction in Steve McQueen’s Shame and adolescent daughter-father incest in Tom Roth’s The War Zone. Drawing on these films as companion pieces, we discuss how the unseen, unspoken, and physical conveyance of emotion – understood as affect triggered by life experience – is able to capture the trauma of familial child abuse, the disavowal of these histories, and the inescapable and exclusive relationship of co-traumatized siblings.
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