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Title The construction of testimony : Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and its outtakes / edited by Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselsberger
Published Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 495 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
Contents Introduction: Inventing According to the Truth: The Long Arc of Lanzmann's Shoah / Erin McGlothlin and Brad Prager -- 1. Inside the Outtakes: A History of the Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Lindsay Zarwell and Leslie Swift -- 2. Shoah and the Archive / Sue Vice -- 3. Composing with Incompossibles: The Jewish Council, the "Kasztner Train," and the Making of Shoah / Jennifer Cazenave -- 4. "The dead are not around": Raul Hilberg as Historical Revenant in Shoah / Noah Shenker -- 5. "Traduttore traditore": Claude Lanzmann's Polish Translations / Dorota Glowacka 6. Yehuda Lerner's Living Words: Translation and Transcription in Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. / Gary Weissman -- 7. Double Occupancy and Delay: The Last of the Unjust and the Archive / Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann -- 8. In Search of Suchomel in Shoah: Examining Claude Lanzmann's Postproduction Editing Practice / Erin McGlothlin -- 9. The Real Abraham Bomba: Through Claude Lanzmann's Looking Glass / Brad Prager -- 10. The Gender of Testimony: Ruth Elias and the Challenge to Lanzmann's Paradigm of Witnessing / Debarati Sanyal -- 11. Challenging Shoah's Paradigms of Witnessing and Survival: From Filip Müller to Ruth Elias / Markus Zisselsberger -- 12. "They were killing us and we were singing": The Role of Song in Claude Lanzmann's Shoah Outtakes / Leah Wolfson -- Coda. Ownership, Authorship, and Access: The Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection / Regina Longo -- Appendix 1. The Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection: A Guide to the Outtakes / compiled by Lindsay Zarwell and Jennifer Cazenave -- Appendix 2. Works by and about Claude Lanzmann -- Contributors -- Index
Summary Groundbreaking analyses of the vast archive of newly digitized and released outtakes from Lanzmann's masterwork
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2020)
Subject Lanzmann, Claude -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Lanzmann, Claude fast
Subject United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Archives
SUBJECT United States Holocaust Memorial Museum fast
Shoah (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85044382
Shoah (Motion picture) fast
Subject Outtakes.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
Documentary films.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures
Documentary films
Outtakes
Genre/Form Archives
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author McGlothlin, Erin Heather, editor
Swift, Leslie
Zarwell, Lindsay
Wolfson, Leah A. (Leah Anne)
ISBN 0814347355
9780814347355