Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema

Matilda Mroz is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Prior to this she was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex, a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow and Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of several works on cinema, including Temporality and Film Analysis (2012).

“The book is an original and important contribution to the field of Holocaust cinema studies that have developed so far ... . Due to its broad scope and comprehensive film analyses, the book will be useful for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars working in the fields of film studies, Holocaust studies, Slavic studies, and Jewish studies. ... Mroz’s book is an important step on this path towards accepting ‘unwanted knowledge.’” (Elżbieta Ostrowska, The Polish Review, Vol. 69 (2), 2024)

• 1.      Aftermath cinema: unwanted knowledge, unwanted images.- 2.      Earth and bone: framing posthumous materialities.- 3.      Posthumous landscapes and the earth-archive: archaeology, ethics and Birthplace.- 4.      Aftermath’s cinematic séance: anamorphosis, spectrality, and sentient matter.- 5.      The fabric with its rend: framing grief, materialising loss, and Ida’s temporalities.- 6.      A film found on a scrapheap: abjection, informe, and It Looks Pretty From A Distance