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Visualizing the Holocaust (Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual)
David Bathrick
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Paperback. Collection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust. Editor(s): Bathrick, David; Prager, Brad; Richardson, Michael D. Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; DSBH; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 227 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482. Documents, Aesthetics, Memory. Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual. 348 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Bathrick, David; Prager, Brad; Richardson, Michael D. Collection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ACX; DSBH; HBTZ1. Dimension: 152 x 227 x 19. Weight: 480.
Collection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust. Visual representations are an essential but highly contested means of understanding and remembering the Holocaust. Photographs taken in the camps in early 1945 provided proof of and visceral access to the atrocities. Later visualrepresentations such as films, paintings, and art installations attempted to represent this extreme trauma. While photographs from the camps and later aesthetic reconstructions differ in origin, they share goals and have raised similar concerns: the former are questioned not as to veracity but due to their potential inadequacy in portraying the magnitude of events; the latter are criticized on the grounds that the mediation they entail is unacceptable. Some have even questioned any attempt to represent the Holocaust as inappropriate and dangerous to historical understanding. This book explores the taboos that structure the production and reception of Holocaust images and the possibilities that result from the transgression of those taboos. Essays consider the uses of various visual media, aesthetic styles, and genres in representations of the Holocaust; the uses of perpetrator photography; the role of trauma in memory; aesthetic problems of mimesis and memory in the work of Lanzmann, Celan, and others; and questions about mass-cultural representations of the Holocaust. David Bathrick is Emeritus Professor of German at Cornell University, Brad Prager is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, and Michael D. Richardson is Associate Professor of German at Ithaca College.
Product Details
Publisher
BOYE6
Number of pages
348
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571135421
SKU
V9781571135421
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About David Bathrick
BRAD PRAGER is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, Columbia. BRAD PRAGER is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Reviews for Visualizing the Holocaust (Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual)
Adds another substantial document to analyses of visual representations of the Holocaust.
BIOGRAPHY
Has the feel of an intense seminar. . . . What emerges from these essays is a fresh look at the canon of Holocaust representation, and therefore a new appreciation for what is seen, and how memory shapes our attempt to salvage something from the ashes.
Michael Berenbaum
JOURNAL FOR GENOCIDE STUDIES
Innovative approaches to one of the most difficult issues in German film and visual culture.
H-NET REVIEWS
An important contribution . . . . These essays transcend the anxieties surrounding Holocaust representation that began with Adorno's aesthetic interdiction and are attuned to the fruitful possibilities of analyzing the production and reception of Holocaust imagery.
SHOFAR
A welcome, well-wrought contribution to the scholarship about how we deal with traumatic events, ethically, poetically, visually, and aurally.
GERMAN QUARTERLY
An excellent collection of essays which, without exception, are informative, well researched, reasonably argued, and lucidly written.
GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW
Seeks to explore recent debate . . ., bringing together a range of essays on the theory and practice of visual representation of the Shoah. At the heart of this collection is inevitably the vexed issue of the Bilderverbot, the much-spoken-about 'unspeakability' of the Holocaust.
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
The strength of this volume lies in its wealth of materials and the diverse fields of study which it informs. It is theoretically astute and generously illustrated . . . thus making for a highly inspiring read. . . . [A]n essential sourcebook for scholars, graduate and undergraduate students in Holocaust and Visual Studies . . . .
MONATSHEFTE
BIOGRAPHY
Has the feel of an intense seminar. . . . What emerges from these essays is a fresh look at the canon of Holocaust representation, and therefore a new appreciation for what is seen, and how memory shapes our attempt to salvage something from the ashes.
Michael Berenbaum
JOURNAL FOR GENOCIDE STUDIES
Innovative approaches to one of the most difficult issues in German film and visual culture.
H-NET REVIEWS
An important contribution . . . . These essays transcend the anxieties surrounding Holocaust representation that began with Adorno's aesthetic interdiction and are attuned to the fruitful possibilities of analyzing the production and reception of Holocaust imagery.
SHOFAR
A welcome, well-wrought contribution to the scholarship about how we deal with traumatic events, ethically, poetically, visually, and aurally.
GERMAN QUARTERLY
An excellent collection of essays which, without exception, are informative, well researched, reasonably argued, and lucidly written.
GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW
Seeks to explore recent debate . . ., bringing together a range of essays on the theory and practice of visual representation of the Shoah. At the heart of this collection is inevitably the vexed issue of the Bilderverbot, the much-spoken-about 'unspeakability' of the Holocaust.
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
The strength of this volume lies in its wealth of materials and the diverse fields of study which it informs. It is theoretically astute and generously illustrated . . . thus making for a highly inspiring read. . . . [A]n essential sourcebook for scholars, graduate and undergraduate students in Holocaust and Visual Studies . . . .
MONATSHEFTE