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Sylvie Lindeperg - Night and Fog: A Film in History - 9780816679911 - V9780816679911
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Night and Fog: A Film in History

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Description for Night and Fog: A Film in History Hardback. Translator(s): Mes, Tom. Series: Visible Evidence. Num Pages: 392 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AFKV; APFA; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 576.

François Truffaut called Night and Fog “the greatest film ever made.” But when Alain Resnais finished his documentary, with its depiction of Nazi atrocities, the resistance of the French censors was fierce. A mere decade had passed since the end of the war, and the French public was unprepared to confront the horrors shown in the film—let alone the possibility of French complicity. In fact it would be through Night and Fog that many viewers first learned, as film critic Serge Daney put it, “that the worst had only just taken place.”

An engrossing account of the genesis, production, and ... Read more

A microhistory of a film that altered the culture it reflected, Night and Fog offers a unique interpretation of the interworking of biography, history, politics, and film in one epoch-making cultural moment.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
Visible Evidence
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816679911
SKU
V9780816679911
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About Sylvie Lindeperg
Sylvie Lindeperg is professor of history at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is the author of many books in French, including Les Ecrans de l'ombre: La Seconde Guerre mondiale dans le cinéma francais (1944–1969). Tom Mes is the author of many books on Japanese film and cotranslator of Cinema and the Shoah. Jean-Michel Frodon is a ... Read more

Reviews for Night and Fog: A Film in History
"I do not hesitate to call Sylvie Lindeperg’s marvelously detailed study “Night and Fog”: A Film in History a major work of contemporary film historical scholarship. . . . [It] affords genuinely original historical and aesthetic insights . . . in finely wrought prose."—Stuart Liebman, Cineaste "The ultimate authoritative source on Alain Resnais’ groundbreaking Holocaust film Night and Fog ... Read more

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