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Film and genocide / edited by Kristi M. Wilson and Tomas F. Crowder-Taraborrelli.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: eng Publication details: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2012.Description: x, 266 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780299285647 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0299285642 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/658405318 23
LOC classification:
  • PN 1995.9  F487 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface; Introduction; Part I: Atrocities, Spectatorship, and Memory; 1. Film and Atrocity: The Holocaust as Spectacle; 2. Documenting the Holocaust in Orson Welles's The Stranger; 3. Remembering Revolution after Ruin and Genocide: Recent Chilean Documentary Films and the Writing of History; 4. "The Power to Imagine" : Genocide, Exile, and Ethical Memoryin Atom Egoyan's Ararat; Part II: Coloniality and Postcoloniality; 5. Massacre and the Movies: Soldier Blue and the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864; 6. The Other in Genocide: Responsibility and Benevolence in Rabbit-Proof Fence. 7. Genres of "Yet An Other Genocide" : Cinematic Representations of RwandaPart III: Visual Documentation andGenocide; 8. The Specter of Genocide in Errol Morris's The Fog of War; 9. GIs Documenting Genocide: Amateur Films of World War II Concentration Camps; 10. Through the Open Society Archives to The Portraitist: Film's Impulse toward Death and Witness; Part IV: Interviews; 11. Greg Barker, Director of Ghosts of Rwanda (2004); 12. Nick Hughes, Director of 100 Days (2001); 13. Irek Dobrowolski, Director of The Portraitist (2005); Filmography; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.
Summary: 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.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1995.9 F487 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000144154

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-254), filmography and index.

Preface; Introduction; Part I: Atrocities, Spectatorship, and Memory; 1. Film and Atrocity: The Holocaust as Spectacle; 2. Documenting the Holocaust in Orson Welles's The Stranger; 3. Remembering Revolution after Ruin and Genocide: Recent Chilean Documentary Films and the Writing of History; 4. "The Power to Imagine" : Genocide, Exile, and Ethical Memoryin Atom Egoyan's Ararat; Part II: Coloniality and Postcoloniality; 5. Massacre and the Movies: Soldier Blue and the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864; 6. The Other in Genocide: Responsibility and Benevolence in Rabbit-Proof Fence. 7. Genres of "Yet An Other Genocide" : Cinematic Representations of RwandaPart III: Visual Documentation andGenocide; 8. The Specter of Genocide in Errol Morris's The Fog of War; 9. GIs Documenting Genocide: Amateur Films of World War II Concentration Camps; 10. Through the Open Society Archives to The Portraitist: Film's Impulse toward Death and Witness; Part IV: Interviews; 11. Greg Barker, Director of Ghosts of Rwanda (2004); 12. Nick Hughes, Director of 100 Days (2001); 13. Irek Dobrowolski, Director of The Portraitist (2005); Filmography; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.

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.

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