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Screening Auschwitz - Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration (Paperback)
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Screening Auschwitz - Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Expressions of World War II
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Screening Auschwitz examines the classic Polish Holocaust film The
Last Stage (Ostatni etap), directed by the Auschwitz survivor Wanda
Jakubowska (1907-1998). Released in 1948, The Last Stage was a
pioneering work and the first narrative film to portray the Nazi
German camp. Haltof's fascinating book offers to English-speaking
readers a wealth of new materials and sources, mostly from original
Polish sources and obtained through extensive archival research.
With its powerful dramatization of the camp experience, The Last
Stage shaped subsequent Shoah films, establishing several
quasi-documentary themes easily discernible in later Holocaust
narratives: the dark, "realistic" images of the camp; the
passionate moralistic appeal; and the clear divisions between
victims and perpetrators. Jakubowska's film introduced the images
of camp life that are now archetypal-for example, morning and
evening roll calls on the Appelplatz, the arrival of transport
trains at Birkenau, the separation of families, and tracking shots
over the belongings left by the gassed camp victims. These and
other images reinforced the depiction of Nazi German concentration
camps and are discernible in a number of subsequent American films,
including George Stevens's The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), Alan
Pakula's Sophie's Choice (1982), and Steven Spielberg's Schindler's
List (1993). Haltof discusses the unusual circumstances that
surrounded the production of the film on location at
Auschwitz-Birkenau and summarizes critical debates surrounding the
film's release. The book offers much of interest to film historians
and readers interested in the Holocaust.
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