Visualizing the Holocaust : documents, aesthetics, memory

Bathrick, David. (Added Author). Prager, Brad, 1971- (Added Author). Richardson, Michael David, 1970- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781571133830 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1571133836 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
vi, 336 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Rochester N.Y. : Camden House, 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-319) and index.
Includes filmography: p. [321]-323.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : seeing against the grain : re-visualizing the Holocaust / David Bathrick -- On the liberation of perpetrator photographs in Holocaust narratives / Brad Prager -- The interpeter'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 / L.J. Nicoletti -- Auschwitz as hermeneutic rupture, differend, and image malgré tout : Jameson, Lyotard, Didi-Huberman / Sven-Erik Rose -- Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and the intentionality 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 / 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 -- Laugher amid catastrophe : train of life and tragicomic Holocaust cinema / David A. Brenner -- "Heil myself!" : impersonation and identity in comedic representations of Hitler / Michael D. Richardson.