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Concentrationary Cinema

Author : Griselda Pollock
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857453521
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Concentrationary Cinema written by Griselda Pollock and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 358 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.

Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar

Author : Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474400116
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar written by Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconceptualising Almodóvar's films as theoretical and political resources, this innovative book examines a neglected aspect of his cinema: its engagement with the traumatic past, with subjective and collective memory, and with the ethical and political meanings that result from this engagement.

Racism Postcolonialism Europe

Author : Graham Huggan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846312191
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Racism Postcolonialism Europe written by Graham Huggan and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary edited collection turns the postcolonial critical gaze back on Europe itself, arguing that racism is alive and dangerously well and examining a variety of postcolonial criticism in order to understand a variety of racisms: those of false respect, reaction, and surveillance. Racism Postcolonialism Europe wisely suggests that all of these forms of postcolonial racism occur under the guise of representing the interests of the European people— which is a very different entity than the European population as a whole. This volume—which includes contributions from Griselda Pollock, Michel Wieviorka, and Philomena Essed—will be required reading for scholars and students of race, postcolonial studies, sociology, and cultural studies alike.

Concentrationary Imaginaries

Author : Griselda Pollock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857725440
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Concentrationary Imaginaries written by Griselda Pollock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the unacknowledged legacy of a totalitarian mentality has seeped into the deepest recesses of everyday popular culture. It asks if the concentrationary now infests our cultural imaginary, normalizing what was once considered horrific and exceptional by transforming into entertainment violations of human life. Drawing on the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt and the analyses of violence by Agamben, Virilio, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy, it also offers close readings of films by Cavani and Haneke that identify and critically expose such an imaginary and, hence, contest its lingering force.

Palimpsestic Memory

Author : Max Silverman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857458841
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Palimpsestic Memory written by Max Silverman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interconnections between histories and memories of the Holocaust, colonialism and extreme violence in post-war French and Francophone fiction and film provide the central focus of this book. It proposes a new model of 'palimpsestic memory', which the author defines as the condensation of different spatio-temporal traces, to describe these interconnections and defines the poetics and the politics of this composite form. In doing so it is argued that a poetics dependent on tropes and techniques, such as metaphor, allegory and montage, establishes connections across space and time which oblige us to perceive cultural memory not in terms of its singular attachment to a particular event or bound to specific ethno-cultural or national communities but as a dynamic process of transfer between different moments of racialized violence and between different cultural communities. The structure of the book allows for both the theoretical elaboration of this paradigm for cultural memory and individual case-studies of novels and films.

Rethinking Comparison in Archaeology

Author : Joana Alves-Ferreira
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443878979
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Comparison in Archaeology written by Joana Alves-Ferreira and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although comparative exercises are used or applied both explicitly and implicitly in a large number of archaeological publications, they are often uncritically taken for granted. As such, the authors of this book reflect on comparison as a core theme in archaeology from different perspectives, and different theoretical and practical backgrounds. The contributors come from different universities and research contexts, and approach themes and objects from Prehistory to the Early Middle Ages, presenting case studies from Western Europe, the Near East and Latin America. The chapters here also relate archaeology with other disciplines, like art studies, photography, cinema, computer sciences and anthropology, and will be of interest to a wide range of readers, not only archaeologists and those interested in the area of social sciences, but for all those interested in how we construct the past today.

Concentrationary Memories

Author : Griselda Pollock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786734435
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Concentrationary Memories written by Griselda Pollock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrationary Memories has, as its premise , the idea at the heart of Alain Resnais's film Night and Fog (1955) that the concentrationary plague unleashed on the world by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s is not simply confined to one place and one time but is now a permanent presence shadowing modern life. It further suggests that memory (and, indeed art in general) must be invoked to show this haunting of the present by this menacing past so that we can read for the signs of terror and counter its deformation of the human. Through working with political and cultural theory on readings of film, art, photographic and literary practices, Concentrationary Memories analyses different cultural responses to concentrationary terror in different sites in the post-war period, ranging from Auschwitz to Argentina. These readings show how those involved in the cultural production of memories of the horror of totalitarianism sought to find forms, languages and image systems which could make sense of and resist the post-war condition in which, as Hannah Arendt famously stated 'everything is possible' and 'human beings as human beings become superfluous.' Authors include Nicholas Chare, Isabelle de le Court, Thomas Elsaesser, Benjamin Hannavy Cousen, Matthew John, Claire Launchbury, Sylvie Lindeperg, Laura Malosetti Costa, Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman, Glenn Sujo, Annette Wieviorka and John Wolfe Ackerman.

Memory and Complicity

Author : Debarati Sanyal
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823265498
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Memory and Complicity written by Debarati Sanyal and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sophisticated, nuanced, and beautifully written account of the intersecting legacies of genocide and colonialism in postwar France.” —Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Debarati Sanyal calls a “memory-in-complicity” attuned to the gray zones that implicate different regimes of violence across history as well as those of different subject positions such as victim, perpetrator, witness, and reader/spectator. Examining a range of works from Albert Camus, Primo Levi, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Paul Sartre to Jonathan Littell, Assia Djebar, Giorgio Agamben, and Boualem Sansal, Memory and Complicity develops an inquiry into the political force and ethical dangers of such implications, contrasting them with contemporary models for thinking about trauma and violence and offering an extended meditation on the role of aesthetic form, especially allegory, within acts of transhistorical remembrance. What are the political benefits and ethical risks of invoking the memory of one history in order to address another? What is the role of complicity in making these connections? How does complicity, rather than affect-based discourses of trauma, shame, and melancholy, open a critical engagement with the violence of history? What is it about literature and film that have made them such powerful vehicles for this kind of connective memory work? As it offers new readings of some of the most celebrated and controversial novelists, filmmakers, and playwrights from the French-speaking world, Memory and Complicity addresses these questions in order to reframe the way we think about historical memory and its political uses today.

The Film Archipelago

Author : Antonio Gómez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350157988
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Film Archipelago written by Antonio Gómez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema? Comprising 15 essays and a critical introduction, The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema addresses this question by examining a series of intersections between insular spaces and filmmaking in Latin America. The volume brings together international scholars and filmmakers to consider a diverse corpus of films about islands, films that take place on islands, films produced in islands, and films that problematise islands. The book explores a diverse range of films that extend from the Chilean documentaries of Patricio Guzmán to work on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, and films by Argentine directors Gustavo Fontán and Lucrecia Martel. Chapters focus on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the Mexican Islas Marías, and the Panamanian Caribbean; on ecocritical, environmental and film historical aspects of Brazilian and Argentine river islands; and on Cuban, Guadeloupean, Haitian, and Puerto Rican contexts. The Film Archipelago argues that the islands and archipelagos of Latin American cinema constitute a critically interesting, analytically complex, and historically suggestive angle to explore issues of marginality and peripherality, remoteness and isolation, and fragility and dependency. As a whole, the collection demonstrates to what extent the combined insular and archipelagic lens can re-frame and re-figure both longstanding and recent discussions on the spaces of Latin American cinema.

Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust

Author : Jack Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100056827X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust written by Jack Palmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust is a decisive text of intellectual reflection after Auschwitz, in which Bauman rejected the idea that the Holocaust represented the polar opposite of modernity and saw it instead as its dark potentiality. Bringing together leading scholars from across disciplines, this volume offers the first set of focused and critical commentaries on this classic work of social theory, evaluating its ongoing contribution to scholarship in the social sciences and humanities. Addressing the core messages of Modernity and the Holocaust that continue to sound amidst the convulsions of the present, the chapters situate Bauman’s volume in the social, cultural and academic context of its genesis, and considers its role in the complex processes of Holocaust memorialisation. Offering extensions of Bauman’s thesis to lesser-known and undertheorised events of mass violence, and also considering the significance of Janina Bauman’s writings in their own right, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology, intellectual history, Holocaust and genocide studies, moral philosophy, memory studies and cultural theory.

After the Fact

Author : Brad Prager
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623568331
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book After the Fact written by Brad Prager and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Fact studies the terrain of Holocaust documentaries subsequent to the turn of the twenty-first century. Until now most studies have centered primarily on canonical films such as Shoah and Night and Fog, but over the course of the last ten years filmmaking practices have altered dramatically. Changing techniques, diminishing communities of survivors, and the public's response to familiar, even iconic imagery, have all challenged filmmakers to radically revise and newly envision how they depict the Holocaust. Innovative styles have emerged, including groundbreaking techniques of incorporating archival footage, survivor testimony, and reenactment. Carrying wider implications for the fields of Film Studies, Jewish Studies, and Visual Studies, this book closely analyzes ten contemporary and internationally produced films, most of which have hardly been touched upon in the critical literature or elsewhere.

Dreams and atrocity

Author : Emily-Rose Baker
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152615806X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Dreams and atrocity written by Emily-Rose Baker and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the relationship between oneiric and historical episodes of atrocity as depicted in transnational twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, film, literature and theatre. Examining the political and aesthetic power harnessed by dreams in increasingly ‘dark times’, it takes as its starting point the overlooked significance granted to the oneiric beyond Freudian psychoanalysis. By reading the oneiric within variously known cultural texts – including Holocaust fiction, world cinema, Bronx theatre, surrealist art and two collections of wartime dream transcriptions – the volume also offers a renewed perspective on modern and contemporary trauma. In so doing, it demonstrates the relevance of the oneiric, beyond the interpretative framework of psychoanalysis, as an aesthetic and political tool with which to alert us and respond to the violence of our contemporary world.

Cinematic Intermedialities and Contemporary Holocaust Memory

Author : Victoria Grace Walden
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030108775
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Intermedialities and Contemporary Holocaust Memory written by Victoria Grace Walden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the growing trend of intermediality in cinematic representations of the Holocaust. It turns to the in-betweens that characterise the cinematic experience to discover how the different elements involved in film and its viewing collaborate to produce Holocaust memory. Cinematic Intermedialities is a work of film-philosophy that places a number of different forms of screen media, such as films that reassemble archive footage, animations, apps and museum installations, in dialogue with the writing of Deleuze and Guattari, art critic-cum-philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman and film phenomenologies. The result is a careful and unique examination of how Holocaust memory can emerge from the relationship between different media, objects and bodies during the film experience. This work challenges the existing concentration on representation in writing about Holocaust films, turning instead to the materials of screen works and the spectatorial experience to highlight the powerful contribution of the cinematic to Holocaust memory.

Testimonies of Resistance

Author : Nicholas Chare
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789203422
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Testimonies of Resistance written by Nicholas Chare and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sonderkommando—the “special squad” of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau—comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, they are the object of fierce condemnation even today. Yet it was a group of these seemingly compromised men who carried out the revolt of October 7, 1944, one of the most celebrated acts of Holocaust resistance. This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented—by themselves and by others—both during and after the Holocaust.

France’s Memorial Landscape

Author : Sophie Fuggle
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837644500
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book France’s Memorial Landscape written by Sophie Fuggle and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During August 1942 several women jumped to their deaths from a second story window at the tile factory in the small town of Milles near Aix-en-Provence. Between 1939 and 1942 the factory assumed various roles as internment camp, transit camp and ultimately deportation camp. This book is about the view from the ‘suicide window’ as it is presented within the Camp des Milles memorial museum which opened in 2012. It explores how this view might help us to understand and imagine the world of internment and deportation camps operating in France during the Second World War and their memorial today. The book uses the views framed by the window to think critically about the museography of the memorial within the wider context of France’s relatively late acknowledgment of its role in the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War.

Postcolonial Theory and Crisis

Author : Paulo de Medeiros, Sandra Ponzanesi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111006174
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Theory and Crisis written by Paulo de Medeiros, Sandra Ponzanesi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-10-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Concentrationary Art

Author : Griselda Pollock
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785339710
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Concentrationary Art written by Griselda Pollock and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of French poet, novelist and camp survivor Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His concept of a concentrationary art—the need for an urgent and constant aesthetic resistance to the continuing effects of the concentrationary universe—proved to be a major influence for Hannah Arendt and other writers and theorists across a number of disciplines. Concentrationary Art presents the first translation into English of Jean Cayrol’s key essays on the subject, as well as the first book-length study of how we might situate and elaborate his concept of a Lazarean aesthetic in cultural theory, literature, cinema, music and contemporary art.