Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog

Marc Notes: Originally published: 2011.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais's 'Night and Fog' ('Nuit et Brouillard') has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not about the Holocaust as we know it today but a political and aesthetic response to what David Rousset, the French political prisoner from Buchenwald, identified on his return in 1945 as the 'concentrationary universe' which, now actualized, might release its totalitatian plague any time and anywhere?. Review Citations:

Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2012 pg. 20 (EAN 9780857453518, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Pollock, Griselda GRISELDA POLLOCK is Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds. Contributor Bio:  Silverman, Max Max Silverman is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Leeds. He has written on cultural memory, representations of the Holocaust, post-colonial theory and cultures, and immigration, race and nation in France. His recent publications include Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnaisas aNight and Foga, co-edited with Griselda Pollock (Berghahn Books, 2011).