Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
New German Critique
Angaben zur Quelle:
71 (1997) 87-114
Keywords:
Nuit et brouillard (Motion picture)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Psychological aspects
Abstract:
The French documentary film "Night and Fog" caused a scandal at the Cannes Film festival in 1956 not because it accused the whole German people of a crime, but because of its mode of representation. The scandal erupted over Resnais' use of archival materials juxtaposed with later footage, which served to defamiliarize the archive and to complicate a facile distinction between past and present. Hebard agrees with LaCapra's and Santner's criticism of existing Holocaust representation, but disagrees with their proposed alternatives. Proposes a politics of remembrance that functions through the anxiety of the uncanny, which involves working through ambivalence rather than working through trauma.
Note:
Appeared also in "Concentrationary Cinema" (2011) 214-237.
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