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Memories of Resistance and the Holocaust on Film
✍ Scribed by Mercedes Camino
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 273
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
This book investigates cinematic representations of the murder of European Jews and civilian opposition to Nazi occupation from the war up until the twenty-first century. The study exposes a chronology of the conflict’s memorialization whose geo-political alignments are demarcated by vectors of time and space—or ‘chronotopes’, using Mikhail Bakhtin’s term. Camino shows such chronotopes to be first defined by the main allies; the USA, USSR and UK; and then subsequently expanding from the geographical and political centres of the occupation; France, the USSR and Poland. Films from Western and Eastern Europe and the USA are treated as primary and secondary sources of the conflict. These sources contribute to a sentient or emotional history that privileges affect and construct what Michel Foucault labels biopolitics. These cinematic narratives, which are often based on memoirs of resistance fighters like Joseph Kessel or Holocaust survivors such as Primo Levi and Wanda Jakubowska, evoke the past in what Marianne Hirsch has described as ‘post-memory’.
✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter ....Pages i-x
Introduction (Mercedes Camino)....Pages 1-28
The Civilian Resister (1942–69) (Mercedes Camino)....Pages 29-73
The Partisan (1943–74) (Mercedes Camino)....Pages 75-110
The Collaborator (1969–74) (Mercedes Camino)....Pages 111-133
Holocaust Testimony: Survivors, Ghosts and Revenants (1947–2002) (Mercedes Camino)....Pages 135-167
Righteous Gentiles (1987–2011) (Mercedes Camino)....Pages 169-196
The Jewish Resister (1987–2015) (Mercedes Camino)....Pages 197-227
Conclusion: Chronotopes and Grey Zones (Mercedes Camino)....Pages 229-242
Back Matter ....Pages 243-267
✦ Subjects
Cultural and Media Studies; European Cinema; History of World War II and the Holocaust
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