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Traumatic Memories, Loss And Abandonment In Scott Frank's The Queen's Gambit (2020)

Auteurs : Sellam Amina . Guendouzi Amar .

Résumé

Scott Frank’s The Queen’s Gambit (2020) offers a unique representation of the effects of trauma through the protagonist`s life Beth Harmon. This article employs a dual-framework study that analyses how the TV series demonstrates the main character’s, Beth Harmon, early trauma of maternal loss and institutional abandonment. It draws on psychoanalytical concepts from Freud, to Caruth to Herman, to interpret Beth’s addiction, dissociative states, and relationships as symptoms of trauma of loss and abandonment. As far as cinematography is concerned, the article investigates how the director translates the heroine’s internal psychological conflicts into visual form through recurring motifs, the rhythmic editing and the strategic use of colour and production design to map the protagonist’s psychological landscape. By combining cinematography analysis with psychoanalytic and trauma theory, this article highlights Beth’s journey to proficiency as a successful achievement to gradual, painful process of grieving, accepting, and then coping with lost maternal parent, accomplished through both human connection with the other and the competent mastery of chess gaming itself.

Mots clés

The Queen’s Gambit, Traumatic memories, Loss, Abandonment, Cinematography