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Afterimage: Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust (Emerging Media: History, Theory, Narrative)
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by Joshua Hirsch
Sales Rank: 775922
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Cover Type: Paperback with 240 pages
Published by: Temple University Press December 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 159213209X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1592132096
Book Dimensions:
8.7 x 6.4 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 7.2 ounces
Book Description
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 the changes in documentary brought about by cinema verite, culminating in Shoah. He then turns to the appearance of a fictional posttraumatic cinema, tracing its development through the vivid flashbacks in Resnais' Hiroshima, mon amour to the portrayal of pain and memory in The Pawnbroker. He excavates a posttraumatic autobiography in three early films by the Hungarian István Szabó. Finally, Hirsch looks at the effects of postmodernism on posttraumatic cinema, looking at Schindler's List and a work about a different form of historical trauma, History and Memory, a videotape dealing with the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War.
Sweeping in its scope, Afterimage presents a new way of thinking about film and history, trauma and its representation.
Publisher Description
How films on the Holocaust gave birth to a new cinematic genre
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