Film and Genocide [electronic resource] / edited by Kristi M. Wilson and Tomas F. Crowder-Taraborrelli.

ISBN:

9780299285630

9781283486231

Title:

Film and Genocide [electronic resource] / edited by Kristi M. Wilson and Tomas F. Crowder-Taraborrelli.

Author:

Wilson, Kristi M.

Publication Information:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 266 pages) : illustrations.

Contents:

Film and atrocity : the Holocaust as spectacle / Sophia Wood -- Documenting the Holocaust in Orson Welles's The Stranger / Jennifer L. Barker -- Remembering revolution after ruin and genocide : recent Chilean documentary films and the writing of history / Michael J. Lazzara -- "The power to imagine" : genocide, exile, and ethical memory in Atom Egoyan's Ararat / Georgina Banita -- Massacre and the movies : Soldier blue and the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 / Paul R. Bartrop -- The other in genocide : responsibility and benevolence in Rabbit-proof fence / Donna-Lee Frieze -- Genres of "Yet an other genocide" : cinematic representations of Rwanda / Madelaine Hron -- The spector of genocide in Errol Morris's The fog of war / Kristi M. Wilson -- GIs documenting genocide : amateur films of World War II concentration camps / Marsha Orgeron -- Through the Open Society Archives to The Portraitist : film's impulse toward death and witness / Stephen Cooper -- Greg Barker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda (2004) / interviewed by Richard O'Connell -- Nick Hughes, director of 100 days (2001) / interviewed by Piotr A. Cieplak -- Irek Dubrowski, directory of The portraitist (2005) / interviewed by Stephen Cooper.

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Subject Term:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.

Genocide in motion pictures.

Motion picture producers and directors -- Interviews.

Added Author:

Wilson, Kristi M.

Crowder-Taraborrelli, Tomás F.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.

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Summary

Film and Genocide brings together scholars of film and of genocide to discuss film representations, both fictional and documentary, of the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and genocides in Chile, Australia, Rwanda, and the United States. Since 1955, when Alain Resnais created his experimental documentary Night and Fog about the Nazis' mass killings of Jews and other ostracized groups, filmmakers have struggled with using this medium to tell such difficult stories, to re-create the sociopolitical contexts of genocide, and to urge awareness and action among viewers. This volume looks at such issues as realism versus fiction, the challenge of depicting atrocities in a manner palatable to spectators and film distributors, the Holocaust film as a model for films about other genocides, and the role of new technologies in disseminating films about genocide.
Film and Genocide also includes interviews with three film directors, who discuss their experiences in working with deeply disturbing images and bringing hidden stories to life: Irek Dobrowolski, director of The Portraitist (2005) a documentary about Wilhelm Brasse, an Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoner ordered to take more than 40,000 photos at the c& Nick Hughes, director of 100 Days (2005) a dramatic film about the Rwandan mass killings; and Greg Barker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda (2004), a television documentary for Frontline .

Author Notes

Kristi M. Wilson is director of the Writing Program and assistant professor of rhetoric and humanities, and Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli is visiting professor of Latin American studies, both at Soka University of America in California.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

The essays in this volume consider how film, from GI home movies to recent documentaries about Rwanda and the Balkans, has dealt with the question of genocide. Three interviews with filmmakers, two of whom--Greg Barker and Nick Hughes--confront the Rwandan genocide, are also included. As with many collections, the quality of the contributions is uneven. Although the cinematic portrayal of genocide is often part of an ongoing dialogue about memory, only a few of the contributors actively confront how such cinema can twist historical reality to serve as a commentary on contemporary politics; for example, Alan Resnais's iconic film Night and Fog (1955) was an indictment of the French war in Algeria, rather than about capturing the accuracy of the Shoah, something the filmmaker always admitted but the essay in this collection does not consider. Furthermore, Wilson and Crowder-Taraborrelli's goal is to expand the definition of genocide, an overtly political agenda; they include essays on such topics as the Chilean dictatorship's war against internal dissent in the 1970s, an assertion many historians will resist. The potential audience for the book is limited by the essays' reliance on theory and jargon. Summing Up: Optional. Graduate students, researchers only. F. Krome University of Cincinnati--Clermont College