Haunted Images

Film, Ethics, Testimony, and the Holocaust

Ajouter à ma liste

de Libby Saxton

Type

Studies

Sujet

Genre > Documentary

Mots Clés

documentary, holocaust

Année d'édition

2008

Editeur

Wallflower Press

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Hardcover • 256 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-905674-36-7

Appréciation

(0 vote)

X

Moyenne des votes :

0	vote	= On peut s'en passer
0	vote	= Bon livre
0	vote	= Excellent livre
0	vote	= Unique / une référence

Votre vote : -

Description de l'ouvrage:
Haunted Images takes a close look at a range of treatments of the Holocaust in film, using sustained textual analysis to radically rethink film as a witness to history. Questioning the legitimacy of persistent claims that the Holocaust remains 'unrepresentable', this volume seeks to redefine the singular challenges this event presents to filmmakers, suggesting that filmic representations address the Holocaust as much through what they leave unseen – through silences and ellipses – as through what they visualise directly. Discussing films such as Kapo (1960), Shoah (1985) and Histoire(s) du cinéma (1997), this important new study provides a compelling reading of how European cinema has responded to the particular problems that the Holocaust presents to filmmakers, and suggests compelling fresh insights into the relationship between visual art, cultural trauma and the power of the image.

À propos de l'auteur :
Libby Saxton is Lecturer in French and Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the co-editor of Seeing Things: Vision, Perception and Interpretation in French Studies (2002).

Revue de Presse:
Highly recommended. Choice

Voir le site internet de l'éditeur Wallflower Press