Film and Genocide
Editat de Kristi M. Wilson, Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrellien Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 ian 2012
Film and Genocide brings together scholars of film and of genocide to discuss film representations, both fictional and documentary, of the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and genocides in Chile, Australia, Rwanda, and the United States. Since 1955, when Alain Resnais created his experimental documentary Night and Fog about the Nazis’ mass killings of Jews and other ostracized groups, filmmakers have struggled with using this medium to tell such difficult stories, to re-create the sociopolitical contexts of genocide, and to urge awareness and action among viewers. This volume looks at such issues as realism versus fiction, the challenge of depicting atrocities in a manner palatable to spectators and film distributors, the Holocaust film as a model for films about other genocides, and the role of new technologies in disseminating films about genocide.
Film and Genocide also includes interviews with three film directors, who discuss their experiences in working with deeply disturbing images and bringing hidden stories to life: Irek Dobrowolski, director of The Portraitist (2005) a documentary about Wilhelm Brasse, an Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoner ordered to take more than 40,000 photos at the camp; Nick Hughes, director of 100 Days (2005) a dramatic film about the Rwandan mass killings; and Greg Barker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda (2004), a television documentary for Frontline.
Film and Genocide also includes interviews with three film directors, who discuss their experiences in working with deeply disturbing images and bringing hidden stories to life: Irek Dobrowolski, director of The Portraitist (2005) a documentary about Wilhelm Brasse, an Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoner ordered to take more than 40,000 photos at the camp; Nick Hughes, director of 100 Days (2005) a dramatic film about the Rwandan mass killings; and Greg Barker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda (2004), a television documentary for Frontline.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780299285647
ISBN-10: 0299285642
Pagini: 276
Ilustrații: 20 b-w film stills
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10: 0299285642
Pagini: 276
Ilustrații: 20 b-w film stills
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Recenzii
“Groundbreaking and consistently engaging, Film and Genocide may become a classic. It explores a wide range of films and archival sources and features memorable interviews with filmmakers.”—Adam Jones, author of Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction
“With great sensitivity, these essays explore the aesthetic and ethical dilemmas in representing genocide, as they examine representations of genocide across history, geography, and culture, and across fictional and documentary cinema.”—David Desser, coauthor of American-Jewish Filmmakers
“Film and Genocide makes a valuable contribution to a new and important field of research, which takes a comparative approach not just to the history of genocide but also to its representation.”—H-Net Reviews
Notă biografică
Kristi M. Wilson is director of the Writing Program and assistant professor of rhetoric and humanities, and Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli is visiting professor of Latin American studies, both at Soka University of America in California.
Cuprins
Preface
Kristi M. Wilson and Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli
Introduction
Kristi M. Wilson and Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli
Part I: Atrocities, Spectatorship, and Memory
1 Film and Atrocity: The Holocaust as Spectacle
Sophia Wood
2 Documenting Atrocity in Orson Welles's The Stranger
Jennifer Barker
3 Remembering Revolution after Ruin and Genocide: On Recent Chilean Documentary Films and the Writing of History
Michael J. Lazzara
4 "The Power to Imagine": Genocide, Exile, and Ethical Memory in Atom Egoyan's Ararat
Georgiana Banita
Part II: Coloniality and Postcoloniality
5 Massacre and the Movies: Soldier Blue and the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864
Paul R. Bartrop
6 The Other in Genocide: Responsibility and Benevolence in Rabbit Proof Fence
Donna-Lee Frieze
7 Genres of "Yet an Other Genocide": Cinematic Representations of Rwanda
Madelaine Hron
Part III: Visual Documentation and Genocide
8 The Specter of Genocide in Errol Morris's The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Kristi M. Wilson
9 GIs Documenting Genocide: Amateur Films of World War II Concentration Camps
Marsha Orgeron
10 Through the Open Society Archives to The Portraitist: Film's Impulse Toward Death and Witness
Stephen Cooper
Part IV: Interviews
11 Greg Barker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda (2004)
Interviewed by Richard O'Connell
12 Nick Hughes, director of 100 Days (2001)
Interviewed by Piotr A. Cieplak
13 Irek Dobrowolski, director of The Portraitist (2005)
Interviewed by Stephen Cooper
Filmography
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Introduction
Kristi M. Wilson and Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli
Part I: Atrocities, Spectatorship, and Memory
1 Film and Atrocity: The Holocaust as Spectacle
Sophia Wood
2 Documenting Atrocity in Orson Welles's The Stranger
Jennifer Barker
3 Remembering Revolution after Ruin and Genocide: On Recent Chilean Documentary Films and the Writing of History
Michael J. Lazzara
4 "The Power to Imagine": Genocide, Exile, and Ethical Memory in Atom Egoyan's Ararat
Georgiana Banita
Part II: Coloniality and Postcoloniality
5 Massacre and the Movies: Soldier Blue and the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864
Paul R. Bartrop
6 The Other in Genocide: Responsibility and Benevolence in Rabbit Proof Fence
Donna-Lee Frieze
7 Genres of "Yet an Other Genocide": Cinematic Representations of Rwanda
Madelaine Hron
Part III: Visual Documentation and Genocide
8 The Specter of Genocide in Errol Morris's The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Kristi M. Wilson
9 GIs Documenting Genocide: Amateur Films of World War II Concentration Camps
Marsha Orgeron
10 Through the Open Society Archives to The Portraitist: Film's Impulse Toward Death and Witness
Stephen Cooper
Part IV: Interviews
11 Greg Barker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda (2004)
Interviewed by Richard O'Connell
12 Nick Hughes, director of 100 Days (2001)
Interviewed by Piotr A. Cieplak
13 Irek Dobrowolski, director of The Portraitist (2005)
Interviewed by Stephen Cooper
Filmography
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Descriere
Film and Genocide brings together scholars of film and of genocide to discuss film representations, both fictional and documentary, of the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and genocides in Chile, Australia, Rwanda, and the United States. Since 1955, when Alain Resnais created his experimental documentary Night and Fog about the Nazis’ mass killings of Jews and other ostracized groups, filmmakers have struggled with using this medium to tell such difficult stories, to re-create the sociopolitical contexts of genocide, and to urge awareness and action among viewers. This volume looks at such issues as realism versus fiction, the challenge of depicting atrocities in a manner palatable to spectators and film distributors, the Holocaust film as a model for films about other genocides, and the role of new technologies in disseminating films about genocide.
Film and Genocide also includes interviews with three film directors, who discuss their experiences in working with deeply disturbing images and bringing hidden stories to life: Irek Dobrowolski, director of The Portraitist (2005) a documentary about Wilhelm Brasse, an Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoner ordered to take more than 40,000 photos at the camp; Nick Hughes, director of 100 Days (2005) a dramatic film about the Rwandan mass killings; and Greg Barker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda (2004), a television documentary for Frontline.
Film and Genocide also includes interviews with three film directors, who discuss their experiences in working with deeply disturbing images and bringing hidden stories to life: Irek Dobrowolski, director of The Portraitist (2005) a documentary about Wilhelm Brasse, an Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoner ordered to take more than 40,000 photos at the camp; Nick Hughes, director of 100 Days (2005) a dramatic film about the Rwandan mass killings; and Greg Barker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda (2004), a television documentary for Frontline.