Language:
French
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Cahier International sur le Témoignage Audiovisuel
Angaben zur Quelle:
7 (2001) 53-86
Keywords:
Lanzmann, Claude.
;
Ophuls, Marcel
Abstract:
Analyzes the role of the interview in Marcel Ophuls' and Claude Lanzmann's films, which have shaped Holocaust awareness and contributed to filmed interviews becoming the preferred form of Holocaust testimony since the 1980s. Compares their interviewing techniques, choice of interviewees, use or rejection of archival material - all of them expressions of different views of the past. For Ophuls, history unfolds horizontally, storylike, while Lanzmann's "psychoanalytical" interviews reflect a vertical view of history as sacred. Despite their ideological, methodological, and temperamental differences, Ophuls and Lanzmann have influenced each other, making each other's work possible. Concludes that reconciling their worldviews is invigorating and fruitful for both historians and film lovers, opening up a dynamic field of exploration into the Shoah.
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