Shoah

SUE VICE is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is the author of Introducing Bakhtin (1997), Holocaust Fiction (2000), Children Writing the Holocaust (2004) and Jack Rosenthal (2009), and the editor of Representing the Holocaust: Essays in Honour of Bryan Burns (2003).

…an insightful, balanced and accessible way into this intimidating work.

• Introduction.- 1 Lanzmann as film-maker.- 2 Documentary or 'fiction of the real'?.- 3 Archive footage.- 4 'Reincarnating' the past.- 5 Mise en scene.- 6 Lanzmann as interviewer.- 7 Poland: the ethics of filming.- 8 Testimony.- Appendix: Overview of Shoah.- Notes.- Credits.- Bibliography.