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Concentrationary cinema : aesthetics as political resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and fog (1955) /
Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film no...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not about the Holocaust as we know it today but a political and aesthetic response to what David Rousset, the French political prisoner from Buchenwald, identified on his return in 1945 as the 'concentrationary universe' which, now actualized, might release its totalitarian plague any time and anywhere? Wh. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 338 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 30-320 and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857453525 0857453521 6613591793 9786613591791 1782384987 9781782384984 1280496568 9781280496561 |
| Acceso: | Legal Deposit; |