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 t...
قائمة المحتويات
List of Illustrations
Preface
Richard Raskin
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Concentrationary Cinema
Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman
Chapter 1. N...
عن المؤلف
Max Silverman is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Leeds. He has written on cultural memory, representations of the Holocaust, post-colonial theor...