Cinema and the Shoah: An Art Confronts the Tragedy of the Twentieth Century (The Suny Series/ Horizons of Cinema)
"With its comprehensive examination of the role that the cinema, broadly defined, has played in representing an event that only problematically permits representation,Cinema and the Shoahfills a significant gap in Holocaust studies. An engaging, disturbing, provocative book that is a must read for both film scholars and those interested in the central role that films and filmmakers have played in making known and shaping the meaning of the Holocaust."  --R. Barton Palmer, Clemson University"This book underlines how much, and in what ways, the Holocaust can be seen at the roots of cinematographic modernity."  --Les Inrockuptibles, in praise of the French edition"Many voices, signatures, and angles are put together to explore the way the Holocaust--and the denial of the image and the human it signifies--drew its deep imprint in cinema."  --Le Monde, in praise of the French edition--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.