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@article{183660,
        author = {N. Hima Bindu},
        title = {A Narrative Analysis of HBO's Sharp Objects on Digital Memory and Gendered Trauma},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {3},
        pages = {2620-2624},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=183660},
        abstract = {This research considers HBO's Sharp Objects as an illustrative case of feminist trauma narrative within contemporary visual culture. The series, which was adapted from Gillian Flynn's novel, follows journalist Camille Preaker as she returns to her suffocating childhood town, confronting her traumatic past which includes a deeply ensnared abusive mother and emotional dissociation. The series combines a fragmented, non-linear narrative with flashbacks, hallucinations, and visual repetition to reflect Camille’s psychological collapse. The article claims that the series deliberately avoids coherence and closure as narrative devices in favor of a more visceral, repetitive Camille’s shattered memory and repressed rage structured around affection, trauma theory, feminist narratology, and media aesthetics. Sharp Objects produces trauma as the theme and the form of narrative within a visual lexicon of self-injury, mutism, disjointed editing, and unstable focalization. 
Alongside this critique, the series represents an important contribution to the expanding corpus of feminist visual narrative, in which form functions as a means of resistance to patriarchal demands of psychological coherence, atonement or need for thorough explanation. Sharp Objects offers a provocative depiction of the fragmented female self-troubled, shaped by maternal histories, and in search of meaning that eludes recovery by disrupting chronology and narrative reliability.},
        keywords = {Visual Culture, Repression, Psychological Collapse, Female Narratology},
        month = {August},
        }