Concentrationary Cinema

Concentrationary Cinema
Author :
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 355
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780857453525
ISBN-13 : 0857453521
Rating : 4/5 (521 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Concentrationary Cinema by : Griselda Pollock

Download or read book Concentrationary Cinema written by Griselda Pollock and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Concentrationary Cinema Related Books

Concentrationary Cinema
Language: en
Pages: 355
Authors: Griselda Pollock
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

GET EBOOK

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 catastrop
Agnès Varda
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Agnès Varda
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

GET EBOOK

Collected interviews with the French filmmaker who is sometimes called the "Mother of the New Wave"
The Cinema of Alain Resnais
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: Roy Armes
Categories: Directores y productores de cine
Type: BOOK - Published: 1968 - Publisher: London : Zwemmer ; New York : Barnes

GET EBOOK

Where Film Meets Philosophy
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Hunter Vaughan
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-01 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

GET EBOOK

The formal techniques two classic French filmmakers developed to explore cinema's philosophical potential.
Photography and Memory in Mexico
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Andrea Noble
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-15 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

GET EBOOK

Photography and Memory in Mexico traces the life stories of some of the famous photographic images made during the 1910 revolution, which have been repeatedly r