Visualizing the Holocaust
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Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory(Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual)

Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory(Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual)


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Collection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust. Visual representations are an essential but highly contested means of understanding and remembering the Holocaust. Photographs taken in the camps in early 1945 provided proof of and visceral access to the atrocities. Later visualrepresentations such as films, paintings, and art installations attempted to represent this extreme trauma. While photographs from the camps and later aesthetic reconstructions differ in origin, they share goals and have raised similar concerns: the former are questioned not as to veracity but due to their potential inadequacy in portraying the magnitude of events; the latter are criticized on the grounds that the mediation they entail is unacceptable. Some have even questioned any attempt to represent the Holocaust as inappropriate and dangerous to historical understanding. This book explores the taboos that structure the production and reception of Holocaust images and the possibilities that result from the transgression of those taboos. Essays consider the uses of various visual media, aesthetic styles, and genres in representations of the Holocaust; the uses of perpetrator photography; the role of trauma in memory; aesthetic problems of mimesis and memory in the work of Lanzmann, Celan, and others; and questions about mass-cultural representations of the Holocaust. David Bathrick is Emeritus Professor of German at Cornell University, Brad Prager is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, and Michael D. Richardson is Associate Professor of German at Ithaca College.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Seeing Against the Grain: Re-visualizing the Holocaust - David Bathrick On the Liberation of Perpetrator Photographs in Holocaust Narratives - Brad Prager The Interpreter's Dilemma: Heinrich Jöst's Warsaw Ghetto Photographs - Daniel H. Magilow Whose Trauma Is It? Identification and Secondary Witnessing in the Age of Postmemory - Elke Heckner No Child Left Behind: Anne Frank Exhibits, American Abduction Narratives, and Nazi Bogeymen - Lisa J. Nicoletti Auschwitz as Hermeneutic Rupture, Differend, and Image malgré tout: Jameson, Lyotard, Didi-Huberman - Sven-Erik Rose Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and the Internionality of the Image - Michael D'Arcy For and Against the Bilderverbot: The Rhetoric of "Unrepresentability" and Remediated "Authenticity" in the German Reception of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List Reception of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List - Karyn Ball Celan's Cinematic: Anxiety of the Gaze in Night and Fog and "Engführung" - Eric Kligerman Affect in the Archive: Arendt, Eichmann and The Specialist - Darcy C. Buerkle Home-Movies, Film Diaries, and Mass Bodies: Péter Forgác's Free Fall Into the Holocaust - Jaimey Fisher Laughter and Catastrophe: Train of Life and Tragicomic Holocaust Cinema - David Brenner "Heil Myself!": Impersonation and Identity in the Comedic Representation of Hitler - Michael D. Richardson

About the Author :
BRAD PRAGER is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, Columbia. BRAD PRAGER is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Review :
Adds another substantial document to analyses of visual representations of the Holocaust. Has the feel of an intense seminar. . . . What emerges from these essays is a fresh look at the canon of Holocaust representation, and therefore a new appreciation for what is seen, and how memory shapes our attempt to salvage something from the ashes. Innovative approaches to one of the most difficult issues in German film and visual culture. An important contribution . . . . These essays transcend the anxieties surrounding Holocaust representation that began with Adorno's aesthetic interdiction and are attuned to the fruitful possibilities of analyzing the production and reception of Holocaust imagery. A welcome, well-wrought contribution to the scholarship about how we deal with traumatic events, ethically, poetically, visually, and aurally. An excellent collection of essays which, without exception, are informative, well researched, reasonably argued, and lucidly written. Seeks to explore recent debate . . ., bringing together a range of essays on the theory and practice of visual representation of the Shoah. At the heart of this collection is inevitably the vexed issue of the Bilderverbot, the much-spoken-about 'unspeakability' of the Holocaust. The strength of this volume lies in its wealth of materials and the diverse fields of study which it informs. It is theoretically astute and generously illustrated . . . thus making for a highly inspiring read. . . . [A]n essential sourcebook for scholars, graduate and undergraduate students in Holocaust and Visual Studies . . . .


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781571135421
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Camden House Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 348
  • Series Title: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
  • Weight: 500 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1571135421
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory
  • Width: 152 mm


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