Agents of liberation : Holocaust memory in contemporary art and documentary film

General Information

Author/Creator
Kékesi, Zoltán, 1976-
Language
English.
Published
Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press ; Helena History Press, 2015.
Physical Description
vi, 221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Subjects

Subject
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence.
Memory in art.
Memory in motion pictures.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility
Zoltán Kékesi.
Content
Part I. The politics of testimony. 1. The reappropriation of violence: the speech of the resistance fighters. Claude Lanzmann: Shoah (1985) and Sobibór, 14 October 1943, 4pm (2001) -- 2. The restoration of difference: the speech of the perpetrator. Claude Lanzmann: Shoah (1985) -- Part II. The Archive, in spite of all -- 3. The melancholy of the archive -- 4. The afterlife of images -- 5. Mediating the perpetrator's speech. Romuald Karmakar: The Himmler Project (2000) -- 6. In the leading role: Adolf Eichmann. Eyal Sivan: The specialist (19999) -- Part III. Site and speech. 7. The erasure of the trace: the restoration of meaning. Artur Żmijewski: 80064 (2004) -- 8. Trauma and simulacra. Omer Fast: Spielberg's list (2003) -- 9. From the culture of grief to the politics of imagination. Yael Bartana: Polish trilogy (2007-2011) -- 10. Agents of liberation. Clemens von Wedemeyer: Rushes (2012).
ISBN
9789633860663

Holdings

Item Type Current Location Collection Call Number Volume Info Shelving Location Public Note
BookOSA Archivum LibraryGeneral collection701.1/5 KEKGeneral Stacks-

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