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Concentrationary cinema : aesthetics as political resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and fog (1955) / edited by Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman.
Van Pelt Library D804.3.N853 C66 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuit et brouillard (Motion picture).
- World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- War and motion pictures.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures.
- Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014--Criticism and interpretation.
- Resnais, Alain.
- Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Motion pictures--Aesthetics.
- Motion pictures.
- Memory in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- x, 338 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- Concentrationary cinema used radical techniques of montage and disorientation, camera movements, and counterpointed commentary to puncture the normality of post-war reconstruction. There are several famous films in the genre, but scholars of literature, film, and history focus here on Night and Fog as the classic. Among their topics are the rescue of an abandoned film, Resnais and the dead, Auschwitz as allegory, post-traumatic cinema, cinema as a slaughterhouse of history, and the responsibility of aesthetics in Night and Fog (1955) and Kapo (1959). Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Introduction / Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman
- Night and fog: a history of gazes / Sylvie Lindeperg
- Memory of the camps / Kay Gladstone
- Opening the camps, closing the eyes: image, history, readability / Georges Didi-Huberman
- Resnais and the dead / Emma Wilson
- Night and fog and the concentrationary gaze / Libby Saxton
- Auschwitz as allegory in Night and fog / Deborati Sanyal
- Night and fog and posttraumatic cinema / Joshua Hirsch
- Fearful imagination: Night and fog and concentrationary memory / Max Silverman
- Disruptive histories: toward a radical politics of remembrance in Alain Resnais's Night and fog / Andrew Hebard
- Cinema as a slaughterbench of history: Night and fog / John Mowitt
- Death in the image: the responsibility of aesthetics in Night and fog (1955) and Kapo (1959) / Griselda Pollock.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [30]-320 and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857453518
- 0857453513
- 9780857453525
- 0857453521
- OCLC:
- 714734865
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