| Cinema and the Shoah: An Art Confronts the Tragedy of the Twentieth Century Contributor(s): Frodon, Jean-Michel (Editor), Harrison, Anna (Translator), Mes, Tom (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1438430264 ISBN-13: 9781438430263 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - History | Holocaust - Social Science | Jewish Studies |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 2009022994 |
| Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.20 lbs) 415 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From The Great Dictator to Schindler's List, the extermination of the Jews of Europe has driven the cinema, more than any other form of artistic expression, to question its methods, techniques, and ethics. It is with reference to the Shoah that a decisive part of the thought behind modern cinema has been constructed, and, consciously or not, many of the greatest films of the past sixty years bear the mark of this event. To give an account of these phenomena, Cinema and the Shoah brings together filmmakers, historians, journalists, philosophers, and researchers to explore how the Shoah, as a historical event, implicated and mobilized the cinema by profoundly questioning its modes of recounting and storytelling, of putting visions onscreen. The book also includes a filmography (compiled with the assistance of the Fritz Bauer Institute of Frankfurt) that lists over three hundred feature-length films, short films, and documentaries about the Shoah, produced between 1945 and the present. |