Film as witness: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
TitelFilm as witness: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
Auteur
Call number940.5318072/0001
Objectnummer00508F
Plaats van uitgaveOxford, England
UitgeverBasil Blackwell
Jaar van uitgave
1994
Pagina'spp 90-103
MateriaalArtikel
ISBN1557863679
NotesArticle from the book 'Holocaust remembrance: the shapes of memory'
Beschrijving
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.