Cinema and the Shoah

Jean-Michel Frodon is a former managing editor of Cahiers du cinéma. His previous books include La critique de cinéma and Le cinéma chinois.

"Cinema and the Shoah … opens up new avenues with regard to the insistence on Auschwitz as blind spot, as absolute negativity, and its impact on visual language … the book will be a valuable resource for students, teachers, and researchers of Jewish and modern history, of visual culture and the Holocaust." — H-Net Reviews (H-Judaic)"Cinema and the Shoah takes on an unbelievably complex and difficult subject—not to mention an emotionally draining one—with intellectual force." — AJL Reviews"…Frodon has put together a remarkable collection of essays and still photographs." — CHOICE"With its comprehensive examination of the role that the cinema, broadly defined, has played in representing an event that only problematically permits representation, Cinema and the Shoah fills a significant gap in Holocaust studies. An engaging, disturbing, provocative book that is a must read for both film scholars and those interested in the central role that films and filmmakers have played in making known and shaping the meaning of the Holocaust." — R. Barton Palmer, Clemson University"This book underlines how much, and in what ways, the Holocaust can be seen at the roots of cinematographic modernity." — Les Inrockuptibles, in praise of the French edition"Many voices, signatures, and angles are put together to explore the way the Holocaust—and the denial of the image and the human it signifies—drew its deep imprint in cinema." — Le Monde, in praise of the French edition

• 1. Introduction: Intersecting PathsJean Michel FrodonPart I. MILESTONES2. The Shoah as a Question of CinemaMarie José Mondzain 3. RecoveryJacques Mandelbaum4. A Cinema No Longer SilentHubert DamischPart II. THREE FILMS5. Fatal RendezvousJean Louis Comolli6. Night and Fog: Inventing a PerspectiveSylvie Lindeperg7. The Work of the Filmmaker: An Interview with Claude LanzmannJean Michel Frodon8. Conversations at the Mill with Arnaud Desplechin, Jean Michel Frodon, Sylvie Lindeperg, Jacques Mandelbaum, Marie José Mondzain, Annette WieviorkaPart III. CINEMATOGRAPHY PUT TO THE TEST9. Hollywood and the Shoah, 1933–1945Bill Krohn 10. "The Past in the Present": The Films of Producer Artur Brauner and the Dominant Narratives on the Genocide of European Jews in German CinemaRonny Loewy11. Forgetting, Instrumentalization, and Transgression: The Shoah in Israeli CinemaAriel Schweitzer Part IV. TOOLS FOR HISTORY12. The Filmed WitnessAnnette Wieviorka13. Historiography/Holocaust Cinema: Challenges and AdvancesStuart LiebmanPart V. RESOURCES14. Referent ImagesJean Michel Frodon15. Filmography: Thematic DictionaryDocumentaries and Montage FilmsFiction FilmsEssaysTelevision ProgramsPeriod DocumentsNazi Propaganda 16. "Cinematography of the Holocaust": Documentation and Indexing of Film and Video DocumentsRonny LoewyContributors Index