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The Holocaust
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Moving Image 4

Legenda: Oxford, August 2013  
ISBN: 978-1-907975-02-8

Recent representations of the Holocaust have increasingly required us to think beyond rigid demarcations of nation and history, medium and genre. Holocaust Intersections sets out to investigate the many points of conjunction between these categories in recent images of genocide. The book examines transnational constellations in Holocaust cinema and television in Europe, disclosing instances of border-crossing and boundary-troubling at levels of production, distribution and reception. It highlights intersections between film genres, through intertextuality and pastiche, and the deployment of audiovisual Holocaust memory and testimony. Finally, the volume addresses connections between the Holocaust and other histories of genocide in the visual culture of the new millennium, engaging with the questions of transhistoricity and intercultural perspective. Drawing on a wide variety of different media – from cinema and television to installation art and the internet – and on the most recent scholarship on responses to the Holocaust, the volume aims to update our understanding of how visual culture looks at the Holocaust and genocide today.

With the contributions:

Robert S. C. Gordon, Axel Bangert, Libby Saxton — Introduction
Emiliano Perra — Between National and Cosmopolitan: 21st Century Holocaust Television in Britain, France and Italy
Judith Keilbach — Title to be announced
Laura Rascaroli — Transits: Thinking at the Junctures of Images in Harun Farocki’s Respite and Arnaud des Pallières’s Drancy Avenir
Maxim Silverman — Haneke and the Camps
Barry Langford — Globalising the Holocaust: Fantasies of Annihilation in Contemporary Media Culture
Ferzina Banaji — The Nazi Killin’ Business: A Post-Modern Pastiche of the Holocaust
Matilda Mroz — Neighbours: Polish-Jewish Relations in Contemporary Polish Visual Culture
Berber Hagedoorn — Holocaust Representation in the Multi-Platform TV Documentaries De Oorlog (The War) and 13 in de Oorlog (13 in the War)
Annette Hamilton — Cambodian Genocide: Ethics and Aesthetics in the Cinema of Rithy Panh
Piotr Cieplak, Emma Wilson — The Afterlife of Images