Afterimage [electronic resource] : Film, Trauma And The Holocaust

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirsch, Joshua.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.

War films--History and criticism.

Local Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.

War films--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.

Summary:

The appearance of Alain Resnais' 1955 French documentary Night and Fog heralded the beginning of a new form of cinema, one that used the narrative techniques of modernism to provoke a new historical consciousness. Afterimage presents a theory of posttraumatic film based on the encounter between cinema and the Holocaust. Locating its origin in the vivid shock of wartime footage, Afterimage focuses on a group of crucial documentary and fiction films that were pivotal to the spread of this cinematic form across different nations and genres.Joshua Hirsch explores

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction to Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust; 2. Night and Fog and the Origins of Posttraumatic Cinema; 3. Shoah and the Posttraumatic Documentary after Cinema Verite; 4. The Pawnbroker and the Posttraumatic Flashback; 5. Istvan Szabo and Posttraumatic Autobiography; 6. Postmodernism, the Second Generation, and Cross-Cultural Posttraumatic Cinema; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

652654416