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PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN-100816679916
ISBN-139780816679911
eBay Product ID (ePID)201644010
Product Key Features
Number of Pages392 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Name&Quot;Night and Fog&Quot; : a Film in History
SubjectFilm / General, Europe / France, Film / Genres / Historical, Film / History & Criticism, Film & Video
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Performing Arts, History
AuthorSylvie Lindeperg
SeriesVisible Evidence Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight21 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2014-001553
Reviews"I do not hesitate to call Sylvie Lindeperg's marvelously detailed study " Night and Fog": A Film in History a major work of contemporary film historical scholarship. . . . [It] affords genuinely original historical and aesthetic insights . . . in finely wrought prose."--Stuart Liebman, Cineaste "The ultimate authoritative source on Alain Resnais' groundbreaking Holocaust film Night and Fog ( Nuit et brouillard , 1955). [Lindeperg's] research is remarkable, and the book will be invaluable to those working in European history as well as film. This volume does remarkable service to Night and Fog , a film that in the immediate aftermath of the war challenged viewers to remember the victims of the Holocaust."-- CHOICE " Night and Fog gave me a context, a literal frame of art through which I could watch the unwatchable. Slyvie Lindeperg's book does something similar for the film itself, and readers willing to tackle it and the film will find the effort well rewarded."-- Documentary Magazine "The definitive study of Night and Fog ... Historians should also appreciate it as an excellent example of the type of historical work close attention to film makes possible."-- Journal of Modern History "Sylvie Lindeperg's masterful Night and Fog: A Film in History is the definitive work of reference on Resnais's classic documentary. We are fortunate to have an excellent English translation of this important and beautifully written French work."-- H-France Reviews, I do not hesitate to call Sylvie Lindeperg's marvelously detailed study, "Night and Fog": A Film in History , a major work of contemporary film historical scholarship....[It] affords genuinely original historical and aesthetic insights...in finely wrought prose. --Stuart Liebman, Cineaste
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number28
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal940.53/18
Table Of ContentContents Foreword Jean-Michel Frodon Acknowledgments Introduction Abbreviations Prologue: Olga Wormser-Migot, the Missing Link Part I. Inception: A Breakdown of Gazes 1. The "Invisible Authority": The Stakes of a Commission 2. The " Merchants of Shadows": A French-Polish Coproduction 3. A Journey to the East: Research and Documentation 4. Writing Four Hands 5. The Adventurous Gaze 6. The Darkness of the Editing Room 7. Suffocated Words: A Lazarian Poetry 8. Eisler's Neverending Chant Part II. Passage and Migration 9. Tug of War with the Censors 10. The Cannes Confusion: Dissecting a Scandal 11. Germany Gets Its First Look 12. Exile from Language: Paul Celan, Translator 13. Translation Battles in the GDR 14. A Portable Memorial 15. Shifting Perspectives: An Educational Institution 16. Constructing the Cinephilic Gaze Epilogue: Olga's Tomb Notes Index
SynopsisFran ois Truffaut called Night and Fog "the greatest film ever made." But when Alain Resnais finished his documentary, with its depiction of Nazi atrocities, the resistance of the French censors was fierce. A mere decade had passed since the end of the war, and the French public was unprepared to confront the horrors shown in the film--let alone the possibility of French complicity. In fact it would be through Night and Fog that many viewers first learned, as film critic Serge Daney put it, "that the worst had only just taken place." An engrossing account of the genesis, production, and legacy of Resnais's incomparable film, this book documents in extraordinary detail how a film that began as a cinematic spin-off of an educational exhibition on "resistance, liberation, and deportation" went on to become a significant step in the building of a collective consciousness of the tragedy of World War II. Sylvie Lindeperg frames her investigation with the story of historian Olga Wormser-Migot, who played an integral role in the research and writing of Night and Fog --and whose slight error on one point gave purchase to the film's detractors and revisionists and Holocaust deniers. Lindeperg follows the travails of Resnais, Wormser-Migot, and their collaborators in a pan-European search for footage, photographs, and other documentation. She uncovers creative use of liberation footage to stand in for daily life of the camps featured to such shocking effect in the film--a finding that raises hotly debated questions about reenactment and witnessing even as it enhances our understanding of the film's provenance and impact. A microhistory of a film that altered the culture it reflected, Night and Fog offers a unique interpretation of the interworking of biography, history, politics, and film in one epoch-making cultural moment., François Truffaut called Night and Fog "the greatest film ever made." But when Alain Resnais finished his documentary, with its depiction of Nazi atrocities, the resistance of the French censors was fierce. A mere decade had passed since the end of the war, and the French public was unprepared to confront the horrors shown in the film--let alone the possibility of French complicity. In fact it would be through Night and Fog that many viewers first learned, as film critic Serge Daney put it, "that the worst had only just taken place." An engrossing account of the genesis, production, and legacy of Resnais's incomparable film, this book documents in extraordinary detail how a film that began as a cinematic spin-off of an educational exhibition on "resistance, liberation, and deportation" went on to become a significant step in the building of a collective consciousness of the tragedy of World War II. Sylvie Lindeperg frames her investigation with the story of historian Olga Wormser-Migot, who played an integral role in the research and writing of Night and Fog --and whose slight error on one point gave purchase to the film's detractors and revisionists and Holocaust deniers. Lindeperg follows the travails of Resnais, Wormser-Migot, and their collaborators in a pan-European search for footage, photographs, and other documentation. She uncovers creative use of liberation footage to stand in for daily life of the camps featured to such shocking effect in the film--a finding that raises hotly debated questions about reenactment and witnessing even as it enhances our understanding of the film's provenance and impact. A microhistory of a film that altered the culture it reflected, Night and Fog offers a unique interpretation of the interworking of biography, history, politics, and film in one epoch-making cultural moment., François Truffaut called Night and Fog "the greatest film ever made." But when Alain Resnais finished his documentary, with its depiction of Nazi atrocities, the resistance of the French censors was fierce. A mere decade had passed since the end of the war, and the French public was unprepared to confront the horrors shown in the film--let alone the possibility of French complicity. In fact it would be through Night and Fog that many viewers first learned, as film critic Serge Daney put it, "that the worst had only just taken place." An engrossing account of the genesis, production, and legacy of Resnais's incomparable film, this book documents in extraordinary detail how a film that began as a cinematic spin-off of an educational exhibition on "resistance, liberation, and deportation" went on to become a significant step in the building of a collective consciousness of the tragedy of World War II. Sylvie Lindeperg frames her investigation with the story of historian Olga Wormser-Migot, who played an integral role in the research and writing of Night and Fog--and whose slight error on one point gave purchase to the film's detractors and revisionists and Holocaust deniers. Lindeperg follows the travails of Resnais, Wormser-Migot, and their collaborators in a pan-European search for footage, photographs, and other documentation. She uncovers creative use of liberation footage to stand in for daily life of the camps featured to such shocking effect in the film--a finding that raises hotly debated questions about reenactment and witnessing even as it enhances our understanding of the film's provenance and impact. A microhistory of a film that altered the culture it reflected, Night and Fog offers a unique interpretation of the interworking of biography, history, politics, and film in one epoch-making cultural moment., An engrossing account of Alain Resnais'sincomparable film, this book documents how a film that began as a cinematicspin-off of an educational exhibition became a significant step in the buildingof a collective consciousness of the tragedy of World War II. The book offers aunique interpretation of the interworking of biography, history, politics, andfilm in one cultural moment.
LC Classification NumberD804.3.N853L5513
