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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790061403321

Autore

Hirsch Joshua

Titolo

Afterimage [[electronic resource] ] : Film, Trauma And The Holocaust

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/658

791.43658

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures

War films - History and criticism

War films -- History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction to Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust; 2. Night and Fog and the Origins of Posttraumatic Cinema; 3. Shoah and the Posttraumatic Documentary after Cinema Verite; 4. The Pawnbroker and the Posttraumatic Flashback; 5. Istvan Szabo and Posttraumatic Autobiography; 6. Postmodernism, the Second Generation, and Cross-Cultural Posttraumatic Cinema; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The appearance of Alain Resnais' 1955 French documentary Night and  Fog heralded the beginning of a new form of cinema, one that used the narrative techniques of modernism to provoke a new historical consciousness. Afterimage presents a theory of posttraumatic film based on the encounter between cinema and the Holocaust. Locating its origin in the vivid shock of wartime footage, Afterimage focuses on a group of crucial documentary and fiction films that were pivotal to the spread of this cinematic form across different nations and genres.Joshua Hirsch explores