Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema - Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary Polish cinema's engagement with histories of Polish violence against their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust. Moving beyond conventional studies of historical representation on screen, the book considers how cinema reframes the unwanted knowledge of violence in its aftermaths. The book draws on Derridean hauntology, Didi-Huberman's confrontations with art images, Levinasian ethics and anamorphosis to examine cinematic reconfigurations of histories and memories that are vulnerable to evasion and formlessness. Innovative analyses of Birthplace (Lozinski, 1992), It Looks Pretty From a Distance (Sasnal, 2011), Aftermath (Pasikowski, 2012), and Ida (Pawlikowski, 2013) explore how their rural filmic landscapes are predicated on the radical exclusion of Jewish neighbours, prompting archaeological processes of exhumation. Arguing that the distressing materiality of decomposition disturbs cinematic composition, the book examines how Poland's aftermath cinema attempts to recompose itself through form and narrative as it faces Polish complicity in Jewish death.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2021
First published:	2020
Authors:	Matilda Mroz
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	298
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-46165-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War Promotions
LSN:	1-137-46165-9
Barcode:	9781137461650

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