Auteur: Max Silverman

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 wa …

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 p …

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 o …

Facing Postmodernity explains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today such as: * the breaking of the city * racism * the crisis of culture * new citiz …

Facing Postmodernity explains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today such as: * the breaking of the city * racism * the crisis of culture * new citiz …

Facing Postmodernity explains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today such as: * the breaking of the city * racism * the crisis of culture * new citiz …

First published in 1952, Frantz Fanon’s ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ is one of the most important anti-colonial works of the post-war period. It is both a profound critique of the conscious and unconcio …

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 t …

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 t …

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 …