Film as witness: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Film as witness: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318072/0001
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]00508F
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Oxford, England
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Basil Blackwell
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
1994
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp 90-103
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]1557863679
NotesArticle from the book 'Holocaust remembrance: the shapes of memory'
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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.