Visualizing the Holocaust : documents, aesthetics, memory

Author(s)

• Bathrick, David
• Prager, Brad
• Richardson, Michael David

Bibliographic Information

Visualizing the Holocaust : documents, aesthetics, memory

edited by David Bathrick, Brad Prager, and Michael D. Richardson

（Screen cultures : German film and the visual / series editors, Gerd Gemünden, Johannes von Moltke）

Camden House, 2008

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-319) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Visual representations are an essential but highly contested means of understanding and remembering the Holocaust. Photographs taken in the camps in early 1945 provided proof of and visceral access to the atrocities. Later visualrepresentations such as films, paintings, and art installations attempted to represent this extreme trauma. While photographs from the camps and later aesthetic reconstructions differ in origin, they share goals and have raised similar concerns: the former are questioned not as to veracity but due to their potential inadequacy in portraying the magnitude of events; the latter are criticized on the grounds that the mediation they entail is unacceptable. Some have even questioned any attempt to represent the Holocaust as inappropriate and dangerous to historical understanding. This book explores the taboos that structure the production and reception of Holocaust images and the possibilities that result from the transgression of those taboos. Essays consider the uses of various visual media, aesthetic styles, and genres in representations of the Holocaust; the uses of perpetrator photography; the role of trauma in memory; aesthetic problems of mimesis and memory in the work of Lanzmann, Celan, and others; and questions about mass-cultural representations of the Holocaust. David Bathrick is Emeritus Professor of German at Cornell University, Brad Prager is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, and Michael D. Richardson is Associate Professor of German at Ithaca College.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Seeing Against the Grain: Re-visualizing the Holocaust - David Bathrick On the Liberation of Perpetrator Photographs in Holocaust Narratives - Brad Prager The Interpreter's Dilemma: Heinrich Joest's Warsaw Ghetto Photographs - Daniel H. Magilow Whose Trauma Is It? Identification and Secondary Witnessing in the Age of Postmemory - Elke Heckner No Child Left Behind: Anne Frank Exhibits, American Abduction Narratives, and Nazi Bogeymen - Lisa J. Nicoletti Auschwitz as Hermeneutic Rupture, Differend, and Image malgre tout: Jameson, Lyotard, Didi-Huberman - Sven-Erik Rose Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and the Internionality of the Image - Michael D'Arcy For and Against the Bilderverbot: The Rhetoric of "Unrepresentability" and Remediated "Authenticity" in the German Reception of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List Reception of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List - Karyn Ball Celan's Cinematic: Anxiety of the Gaze in Night and Fog and "Engfuhrung" - Eric Kligerman Affect in the Archive: Arendt, Eichmann and The Specialist - Darcy C. Buerkle Home-Movies, Film Diaries, and Mass Bodies: Peter Forgac's Free Fall Into the Holocaust - Jaimey Fisher Laughter and Catastrophe: Train of Life and Tragicomic Holocaust Cinema - David Brenner "Heil Myself!": Impersonation and Identity in the Comedic Representation of Hitler - Michael D. Richardson

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA88230869
• ISBN:
  • 9781571133830
• LCCN: 2008004854
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Rochester
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 336 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 940.53/18
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Pictorial works -- Influence
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA88149501