Concentrationary cinema :: aesthetics as political resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and fog (1955) /

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 no...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
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Zusammenfassung: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? Wh.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 338 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 30-320 and index.
ISBN:9780857453525
0857453521
6613591793
9786613591791
1782384987
9781782384984
1280496568
9781280496561
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