Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Critical Inquiry
Angaben zur Quelle:
23,2 (1997) 231-269
Keywords:
Lanzmann, Claude.
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
Abstract:
Observes that Claude Lanzmann claimed that his film "Shoah" is not history or a documentary, yet viewers see it as such. Suggests that Lanzmann sought to film individuals with whom he could identify and whose suffering and victimization he could experience vicariously. Presents several criticisms of "Shoah" as history: it omits positive actions of Poles toward Jews during the Holocaust; it does not mention the German persecution of Gypsies, homosexuals, or Jehovah's Witnesses; and, although Lanzmann is French, it included no French witnesses to the Holocaust and dealt only with problems which were at a safe distance from France.
Description / Table of Contents:
Gelley, Ora. A response to Dominick LaCapra's "Lanzmann's Shoah". Ibid. 24,3 (1998) 830-832.
Description / Table of Contents:
LaCapra, Dominick. Equivocations of autonomous art. [A response to Gelley.] 833-836.
Note:
Appeared also in his "History and Memory after Auschwitz" (1998), and in "Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah'" (2007) 191-229.
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