Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog
ISBN-13:
9780857453518
ISBN-10:
0857453513
Edition:
1
Author:
Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
Format:
Hardcover
358 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780857453518
ISBN-10:
0857453513
Edition:
1
Author:
Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
Format:
Hardcover
358 pages
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Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (ISBN-13: 9780857453518 and ISBN-10: 0857453513), written by authors
Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman, was published by Berghahn Books in 2012.
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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 about the Holocaust as we know it today but a political and aesthetic response to what David Rousset, the French political prisoner from Buchenwald, identified on his return in 1945 as the 'concentrationary universe' which, now actualized, might release its totalitarian plague any time and anywhere? What kind of memory does the film create to warn us of the continued presence of this concentrationary universe? This international collection re-examines Resnais's benchmark film in terms of both its political and historical context of representation of the camps and of other instances of the concentrationary in contemporary cinema. Through a range of critical readings, Concentrationary Cinema explores the cinematic aesthetics of political resistance not to the Holocaust as such but to the political novelty of absolute power represented by the concentrationary system and its assault on the human condition.
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