Concentrationary Cinema : : Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's ‹I›Night and Fog‹/I› / / ed. by Max Silverman, Griselda Pollock.
Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not abo...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates from Night and Fog
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Concentrationary Cinema
- 1. Night and Fog: A History of Gazes
- 2. Memory of the Camps: The Rescue of an Abandoned Film
- 3. Opening the Camps, Closing the Eyes: Image, History, Readability
- 4. Resnais and the Dead
- 5. Night and Fog and the Concentrationary Gaze
- 6. Auschwitz as Allegory in Night and Fog
- 7. Night and Fog and Posttraumatic Cinema
- 8. Fearful Imagination: Night and Fog and Concentrationary Memory
- 9. Disruptive Histories: Towards a Radical Politics of Remembrance in Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog
- 10. Cinema as a Slaughterbench of History: Night and Fog
- 11. Death in the Image: The Responsibility of Aesthetics in Night and Fog (1955) and Kapò (1959)
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index