{"product_id":"concentrationary-cinema-aesthetics-as-political-resistance-in-alain-resnaiss-night-and-fog-paperback","title":"Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGriselda Pollock\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMax Silverman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais's \u003cem\u003eNight and Fog \u003c\/em\u003e(\u003cem\u003eNuit et Brouillard\u003c\/em\u003e) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not about the Holocaust as we know it today but a political and aesthetic response to what David Rousset, the French political prisoner from Buchenwald, identified on his return in 1945 as the 'concentrationary universe' which, now actualized, might release its totalitarian plague any time and anywhere? What kind of memory does the film create to warn us of the continued presence of this concentrationary universe? This international collection re-examines Resnais's benchmark film in terms of both its political and historical context of representation of the camps and of other instances of the concentrationary in contemporary cinema. Through a range of critical readings, \u003cem\u003eConcentrationary Cinema \u003c\/em\u003eexplores the cinematic aesthetics of political resistance not to the Holocaust as such but to the political novelty of absolute power represented by the concentrationary system and its assault on the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 358\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47496066793650,"sku":"9781782384984","price":51.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/964805542be97ae04fd4b5792bc296f0.webp?v=1779423413","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/concentrationary-cinema-aesthetics-as-political-resistance-in-alain-resnaiss-night-and-fog-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}