Language:
English
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Gendering War Talk
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1993) 3-19
Keywords:
Lanzmann, Claude.
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
;
Jewish women in motion pictures
Abstract:
Discusses the film's minimal treatment of women's accounts of the Holocaust. Although the experience of Jewish women is described in the Jewish men's and the bystanders' and the perpetrators' narratives, women themselves appear on screen on only a few, and extremely brief, occasions. For Lanzmann, gender is irrelevant to the death machinery on which he focuses with such relentless energy; he refuses to recognize or acknowledge differences in role or experience among the Jewish victims, irrespective of whether these relate to gender, age, or other social demarcations. Discusses the place of the women in the film from a mythic perspective: they speak in Orphic voices, the shadowy intermediary voices between language and silence. The film relies on a process of "gendered translation" to make its inquiry comprehensible.
Note:
Appeared also in "Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah'" (2007) 175-190.
URL:
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