Visualizing the Holocaust - Documents, Aesthetics, Memory

Collection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust.

List 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

David Bathrick, Brad Prager, Michael D. Richardson

Product details

• Authors: David Bathrick, Darcy C. Buerkle, Daniel H. Magilow, Brad Prager, Michael D. Richardson
• Assisted by: David Bathrick (Editor), David (Contributor) Bathrick (Editor), Brad Prager (Editor), Professor Brad (Series Editor) Prager (Editor), Michael D. Richardson (Editor), Michael D. (Customer) Richardson (Editor), Professor Michael D. (Customer) Richardson (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.07.2012
• EAN: 9781571135421
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-542-1
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 227 mm x 152 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 502 g
• Illustrations: 26 b/w illus.
• Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual; Screen Cultures: German Film a; Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual; Screen Cultures: German Film a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV