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Concentrationary Cinema - Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (Paperback, New)
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Concentrationary Cinema - Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (Paperback, New)
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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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