Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema: Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge

Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema: Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge

Mroz, Matilda

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Film Studies and Philosophy

Film StudiesHistoriographyWorld War II

ISBN10: 1137461659
ISBN13: 9781137461650
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Feb 10 2021
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary Polish cinema's engagement with histories of Polish violence against their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust. Moving beyond conventional studies of historical representation on screen, the book considers how cinema reframes the unwanted knowledge of violence in its aftermaths. The book draws on Derridean hauntology, Didi-Huberman's confrontations with art images, Levinasian ethics and anamorphosis to examine cinematic reconfigurations of histories and memories that are vulnerable to evasion and formlessness. Innovative analyses of Birthplace (Loziński, 1992), It Looks Pretty From a Distance (Sasnal, 2011), Aftermath (Pasikowski, 2012), and Ida (Pawlikowski, 2013) explore how their rural filmic landscapes are predicated on the radical exclusion of Jewish neighbours, prompting archaeological processes of exhumation. Arguing that the distressing materiality of decomposition disturbs cinematic composition, the book examines how Poland's aftermath cinema attempts to recompose itself through form and narrative as it faces Polish complicity in Jewish death.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Historiography

View All