Film and the Holocaust - New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films (Hardcover, New)

This is a sweeping survey of how global filmmakers have treated the subject of the Holocaust. When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis. This anxiety is, at least in part, rooted in Theodor Adorno's dictum that 'To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric'. And despite the fact that he later reversed his position, the conservative opposition to all 'artistic' representations of the Holocaust remains powerful, leading to the insistent demand that it be represented, as it really was. And yet, whether it's the girl in the red dress or a German soldier belting out Bach on a piano during the purge of the ghetto in "Schindler's List", or the use of tracking shots in the documentaries "Shoah" and "Night and Fog", all genres invent or otherwise embellish the narrative to locate meaning in an event that we commonly refer to as 'unimaginable'. This wide-ranging book surveys and discusses the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in cinema, covering a deep cross-section of both national cinemas and genres.

General

Imprint:	Continuum Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2011
First published:	May 2011
Authors:	Aaron Kerner
Dimensions:	157 x 233 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	352
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-4411-7092-7
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
LSN:	1-4411-7092-8
Barcode:	9781441170927

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