Concentrationary cinema
Subtitle: aesthetics as political resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and fog (1955)
By: edited by Griselda  Pollock and Max Silverman
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780857453518; 9780857453525
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion pictures and the war; Aesthetics; World War, 1939-1945; Nuit et brouillard (Motion picture); Memory in motion pictures; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman; title: Night and fog: a history of gazes / Sylvie Lindeperg; title: Memory of the camps / Kay Gladstone; title: Opening the camps, closing the eyes: image, history, readability / Georges Didi-Huberman; title: Resnais and the dead / Emma Wilson; title: Night and fog and the concentrationary gaze / Libby Saxton; title: Auschwitz as allegory in Night and fog / Deborati Sanyal; title: Night and fog and posttraumatic cinema / Joshua Hirsch; title: Fearful imagination: Night and fog and concentrationary memory / Max Silverman; title: Disruptive histories: toward a radical politics of remembrance in Alain Resnais's Night and fog / Andrew Hebard; title: Cinema as a slaughterbench of history: Night and fog / John Mowitt; title: Death in the image: the responsibility of aesthetics in Night and fog (1955) and Kapo (1959) / Griselda Pollock.