An archive of the catastrophe : the unused footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah /

An archive of the catastrophe : the unused footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cazenave, Jennifer, author.
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]
Description:	xxxvii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture SUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture.
Subject:	Shoah (Motion picture) Shoah (Motion picture) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11896590

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ISBN:	9781438474779 1438474776 9781438474762 1438474768 9781438474786
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Claude Lanzmann's 1985 magnum opus Shoah is a canonical documentary on the Holocaust--and in film history. Over twelve years, Lanzmann gathered 230 hours of interviews with survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators, which he condensed into a nine-and-a-half-hour film. The unused footage was scattered and inaccessible for years before it was restored and digitized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In An Archive of the Catastrophe, Jennifer Cazenave presents the first comprehensive study of this collection. She argues that the outtakes pose a major challenge to the representational and theoretical paradigms produced by the documentary, while offering new meanings of Shoah and of Holocaust testimony writ large. They lend new insight into issues raised by the film, including questions of resistance, rescue, refugees, and above all gender--interviews with women make up a mere ten minutes of the finished documentary. As a rare instance of outtakes preserved during the predigital era of cinema, the unused footage of Shoah challenges us to establish a new critical framework for understanding how documentaries are constructed and reshapes the way we view this key Holocaust film"--
Other form:	Electronic version: Cazenave, Jennifer. Archive of the catastrophe. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019] 9781438474786

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Summary:	Honorable Mention, 2020 Best First Book Award presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies <br> <br> <br> <br> Claude Lanzmann's 1985 magnum opus, Shoah , is a canonical documentary on the Holocaust--and in film history. Over the course of twelve years, Lanzmann gathered 230 hours of location filming and interviews with survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators, which he condensed into a 9½-hour film. The unused footage was scattered and inaccessible for years before it was restored and digitized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In An Archive of the Catastrophe , Jennifer Cazenave presents the first comprehensive study of this collection. She argues that the outtakes pose a major challenge to the representational and theoretical paradigms produced by the documentary, while offering new meanings of Shoah and of Holocaust testimony writ large. They lend fresh insight into issues raised by the film, including questions of resistance, rescue, refugees, and, above all, gender--Lanzmann's twenty hours of interviews with women make up a mere ten minutes of the finished documentary. As a rare instance of outtakes preserved during the predigital era of cinema, this unused footage challenges us to establish a new critical framework for understanding how documentaries are constructed and reshapes the way we view this key Holocaust film.<br> <br> <br> <br> To view the book trailer on YouTube, please go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBjUWyAn55g
Physical Description:	xxxvii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781438474779 1438474776 9781438474762 1438474768 9781438474786