General Information

Language

English.

Published

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2020.

Physical Description

vii, 495 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series

Contemporary approaches to film and media series.

Contributors

Contributor

McGlothlin, Erin Heather, (editor.)

Prager, Brad, 1971- (editor.)

Zisselsberger, Markus, (editor.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

"In The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes, editors Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselsberger gather contributions on how Shoah (1985) fundamentally changed the nature and use of filmed testimony and laid the groundwork for how historians and documentarians regard and understand the history of the Holocaust. Critics have taken long note of Shoah's innovative style and its place in the history of documentary film and in cultural memory, but few scholars have touched on its extensive outtakes and the reams of documentation archived at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and at Yad Vashem, or the release of five feature-length documentaries based on the material in those outtakes. The Construction of Testimony, which contains thirteen essays by some of the most notable scholars in Holocaust film studies, reexamines Lanzmann's body of work, his film, and the impact of Shoah through this trove--over 220 hours--of previously unavailable and unexplored footage. Responding to the need for a sustained examination of Lanzmann's impact on historical and filmic approaches to testimony, this volume inaugurates a new era of scholarship, one that takes a critical position vis-à-vis the filmmaker's posturing, stylization, and editorial sleight-of-hand. The volume's contributors engage with a range of dimensions central to Lanzmann's filmography and the outtakes, including the dynamics of gender in his work, his representation of Nazi perpetrators, and complex issues of language and translation. In light of Lanzmann's invention of a radically new form of witnessing and remembrance, Shoah laid the framework for the ways in which subsequent filmmakers have represented the Holocaust cinematically; at the same time, the outtakes complicate this framework by revealing new details about the filmmaker's complex editorial choices. Scholars and students of film studies and Holocaust studies will value this close analysis."--

Subjects

Subject

Lanzmann, Claude > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses.

Shoah (Motion picture) > Congresses.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures > Congresses.

Outtakes > Congresses.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselsberger.

Series

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Content

Inventing according to the truth : the long arc of Lanzmann's Shoah / Erin McGlothlin and Brad Prager -- Inside the outtakes : a history of the Claude Lanzmann Shoah collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Lindsay Zarwell and Leslie Swift -- Shoah and the archive / Sue Vice -- Composing the incompossibles : the Jewish Council, the "Kasztner Train," and the making of Shoah / Jennifer Cazenave -- "The dead are not around" : Raul Hilberg as historical revenant in Shoah / Noah Shenker -- "Traduttore traditore" : Claude Lanzmann's Polish translations Dorota Glowacka -- Yehuda Lerner's living words : translation and transcription in Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. / Gary Weissman -- Double occupancy and delay : The last of the unjust and the archive / Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann -- In search of Suchomel in Shoah : examining Claude Lanzmann's postproduction editing practice / Erin McGlothlin -- The real Abraham Bomba : through Claude Lanzmann's looking glass / Brad Prager -- The gender of testiomy : Ruth Elias and the challenge to Lanzmann's paradigm of witnessing / Debarati Sanyal -- Challenging Shoah's paradigms of witnessing and survival : from Filip Müller to Ruth Elias / Mark Zisselberger --"They were killing us and we were singing" : the role of song in Claude Lanzmann's Shoah outtakes / Leah Wolfson -- Ownership, authorship, and access : the Claude Lanzmann Shoah collection / Regina Longo -- Appendix 1. The Claude Lanzmann Shoah collection : a guide to the outttakes / compiled by Lindsay Zarwell and Jennifer Cazenave -- Appendix 2. Works by and about Claude Lanzmann.

ISBN

9780814347348

0814347347

9780814347331

0814347339

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	791.43/72 MCG		Reference	-

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