Language:
German
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
Babylon; Beiträge zur jüdischen Gegenwart
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (1986) 84-91
Keywords:
Lanzmann, Claude.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
Abstract:
Discusses the legitimacy of the attempt to present the Holocaust in aesthetic form and the solutions chosen by various writers. States that Lanzmann's film "Shoah" also has an aesthetic dimension: it is far from being a pure documentary. It works through the imagination, using such devices as the re-playing of the past by the "actors" (rather than interviewees reminiscing); the divergence between place and time - the revival of past time in present place; the camera, which sometimes freezes and distances a scene and sometimes draws the viewer into it, such as the train which relentlessly pulls into Treblinka.
Note:
Appeared in English as "The aesthetic transformation of the image of the unimaginable: notes on Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah'" in "October" 48 (1989) 15-24, and in "Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah'" (2007) 125-132. Appeared in French as "Transformations esthétiques dans la représentation de l'inimaginable" in "Au sujet de Shoah" (1990) 157-166.
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