Film as witness: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
TitleFilm as witness: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
Author
Call number940.5318072/0001
Object number00508F
Place of publicationOxford, England
PublisherBasil Blackwell
Year of publication
1994
Physical descriptionpp 90-103
MaterialArticle
ISBN1557863679
NotesArticle from the book 'Holocaust remembrance: the shapes of memory'
Description
This essay is a review of the Shoah a film by Claude Lanzmann. The film is about witnessing: the witnessing of a catastrophe. The film offers a disorienting vision of the present, a compellingly profound and surprising insight into the complexity of the relation between history and witnessing.
