Aesthetics as political resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and fog (1955)

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Aesthetics as political resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and fog (1955)

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Berghahn Books
Language
English
Pages
358

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Table of Contents

Introduction: concentrationary cinema / Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman
Night and fog: a history of gazes / Sylvie Lindeperg
Memory of the camps / Kay Gladstone
Opening the camps, closing the eyes: image, history, readability / Georges Didi-Huberman
Resnais and the dead / Emma Wilson
Night and fog and the concentrationary gaze / Libby Saxton
Auschwitz as allegory in Night and fog / Deborati Sanyal
Night and fog and posttraumatic cinema / Joshua Hirsch
Fearful imagination: Night and fog and concentrationary memory / Max Silverman
Disruptive histories: toward a radical politics of remembrance in Alain Resnais's Night and fog / Andrew Hebard
Cinema as a slaughterbench of history: Night and fog / John Mowitt
Death in the image: the responsibility of aesthetics in Night and fog (1955) and Kapo (1959) / Griselda Pollock.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/658405318
Library of Congress
D804.3.N853 A48 2011, D804.3.N853 C66 2011, D804.3.N853A48 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
358

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24853887M
ISBN 13
9780857453518, 9780857453525
LCCN
2011020657
OCLC/WorldCat
714734865

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15947830W

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