Framing The Holocaust In Polish Aftermath Cinema

Author : Matilda Mroz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137461667

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Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema by Matilda Mroz Pdf

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 (Łoziński, 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.

Author : Marek Haltof
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857453563

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Polish Film and the Holocaust by Marek Haltof Pdf

During World War II Poland lost more than six million people, including about three million Polish Jews who perished in the ghettos and extermination camps built by Nazi Germany in occupied Polish territories. This book is the first to address the representation of the Holocaust in Polish film and does so through a detailed treatment of several films, which the author frames in relation to the political, ideological, and cultural contexts of the times in which they were created. Following the chronological development of Polish Holocaust films, the book begins with two early classics: Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage (1948) and Aleksander Ford's Border Street (1949), and next explores the Polish School period, represented by Andrzej Wajda's A Generation (1955) and Andrzej Munk's The Passenger (1963). Between 1965 and 1980 there was an "organized silence" regarding sensitive Polish-Jewish relations resulting in only a few relevant films until the return of democracy in 1989 when an increasing number were made, among them Krzysztof Kieślowski's Decalogue 8 (1988), Andrzej Wajda's Korczak (1990), Jan Jakub Kolski's Keep Away from the Window (2000), and Roman Polański's The Pianist (2002). An important contribution to film studies, this book has wider relevance in addressing the issue of Poland's national memory.

Author : Janine Fubel,Alexandra Klei,Annika Wienert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111078946

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Space in Holocaust Research by Janine Fubel,Alexandra Klei,Annika Wienert Pdf

In recent years, the issue of space has sparked debates in the field of Holocaust Studies. The book demonstrates the transdisciplinary potential of space-related approaches. The editors suggest that “spatial thinking” can foster a dialogue on the history, aftermath, and memory of the Holocaust that transcends disciplinary boundaries. Artworks by Yael Atzmony serve as a prologue to the volume, inviting us to reflect on the complicated relation of the actual crime site of the Sobibor extermination camp to (family) memory, archival sources, and material traces. In the first part of the book, renowned scholars introduce readers to the relevance of space for key aspects of Holocaust Studies. In the second part, nine original case studies demonstrate how and to what ends spatial thinking in Holocaust research can be put into practice. In four introductory essays, the editors identify spatial configurations that transcend conventional disciplinary, chronological, or geographical systematizations: Fleeting Spaces; Institutionalized Spaces; Border/ing Spaces; Spatial Relations. Drawing on a host of theoretical concepts and addressing various historical contexts as well as different types of media, this book offers scholars and students valuable insights into cutting-edge, international scholarly debates.

Author : Gerd Bayer,Oleksandr Kobrynskyy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850919

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Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century by Gerd Bayer,Oleksandr Kobrynskyy Pdf

In the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century, a large number of films were produced in Europe, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere addressing the historical reality and the legacy of the Holocaust. Contemporary Holocaust cinema exists at the intersection of national cultural traditions, aesthetic conventions, and the inner logic of popular forms of entertainment. It also reacts to developments in both fiction and documentary films following the innovations of a postmodern aesthetic. With the number of witnesses to the atrocities of Nazi Germany dwindling, medialized representations of the Holocaust take on greater cultural significance. At the same time, visual responses to the task of keeping memories alive have to readjust their value systems and reconsider their artistic choices. Both established directors and a new generation of filmmakers have tackled the ethically difficult task of finding a visual language to represent the past that is also relatable to viewers. Both geographical and spatial principles of Holocaust memory are frequently addressed in original ways. Another development concentrates on perpetrator figures, adding questions related to guilt and memory. Covering such diverse topics, this volume brings together scholars from cultural studies, literary studies, and film studies. Their analyses of twenty-first-century Holocaust films venture across national and linguistic boundaries and make visible various formal and intertextual relationships within the substantial body of Holocaust cinema.

Author : Maurizio Cinquegrani
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474403580

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Journey to Poland by Maurizio Cinquegrani Pdf

Journey to Poland addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polish Republic.

Author : Helena Goscilo,Beth Holmgren
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793641663

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Polish Cinema Today by Helena Goscilo,Beth Holmgren Pdf

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Structured according to key themes, Polish Cinema Today analyzes the remarkable innovations in Polish cinema emerging a decade after the 1989 dissolution of the Soviet bloc, once its film industry had evolved from a socialist state enterprise into a much more accessible system of film production, with growing expertise in distribution and marketing. By the early 2000s, an impressive, diverse cohort of filmmakers broke through the gridlock of a small set of esteemed, aging auteurs as well as the glut of imported Hollywood blockbusters, empowered by the digital revolution and domestic audience appetite for independent work. Polish directors today challenge sacrosanct bromides about national and gender identity, Poland’s historical martyrdom, the status of the influential Catholic Church, and the benevolent family, while investigating the phenomena of migration and sexuality in their full complexity. Each thematic chapter places these recent films within a historical/cultural context nationally and transnationally, and designs its analyses of specific works to engage general audiences of film scholars, students, and cinephiles.

Author : Rebecca Margolis
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Jews in motion pictures
ISBN : 9781666910889

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The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen by Rebecca Margolis Pdf

"This book examines how supernatural film and television integrate Yiddish dialogue to reimagine and reconstruct haunted and mystical elements of the Jewish experience, illustrating how closely bound up the Yiddish language is with shadowy immigrant pasts and the haunted sites of Holocaust memory"--

Author : Małgorzata Pakier
Publisher : Warsaw Studies in Jewish History and Memory
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Collective memory and motion pictures
ISBN : 3631619030

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The Construction of European Holocaust Memory by Małgorzata Pakier Pdf

Is a common European Holocaust memory possible? The author approaches this question by analyzing Polish and German cinema after 1989, and the public debates on the past that have surrounded the filmic narratives. Furthermore the author shows how cinema opened hitherto taboo aspects to discussion.

Author : Annika Elisabet Frieberg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805394259

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Peace at All Costs by Annika Elisabet Frieberg Pdf

Although it was characterized by simmering international tensions, the early Cold War also witnessed dramatic instances of reconciliation between states, as former antagonists rebuilt political, economic, and cultural ties in the wake of the Second World War. And such efforts were not confined to official diplomacy, as this study of postwar rapprochement between Poland and West Germany demonstrates. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Peace at All Costs follows Polish and German non-state activists who attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s, showing how they achieved modest successes and media attention at the cost of more nuanced approaches to their national histories and identities.

Author : Tych Feliks & Adamczyk-Garbowska Monika Tych
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 9653084496

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Jewish Presence in Absence by Tych Feliks & Adamczyk-Garbowska Monika Tych Pdf

Author : Antony Polonsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Jews
ISBN : 1800347553

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Focusing on the Holocaust and Its Aftermath by Antony Polonsky Pdf

Author : Anna Bikont
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374710323

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The Crime and the Silence by Anna Bikont Pdf

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category A monumental work of nonfiction on a wartime atrocity, its sixty-year denial, and the impact of its truth Jan Gross's hugely controversial Neighbors was a historian's disclosure of the events in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941, when the citizens rounded up the Jewish population and burned them alive in a barn. The massacre was a shocking secret that had been suppressed for more than sixty years, and it provoked the most important public debate in Poland since 1989. From the outset, Anna Bikont reported on the town, combing through archives and interviewing residents who survived the war period. Her writing became a crucial part of the debate and she herself an actor in a national drama. Part history, part memoir, The Crime and the Silence is the journalist's account of these events: both the story of the massacre told through oral histories of survivors and witnesses, and a portrait of a Polish town coming to terms with its dark past. Including the perspectives of both heroes and perpetrators, Bikont chronicles the sources of the hatred that exploded against Jews and asks what myths grow on hidden memories, what destruction they cause, and what happens to a society that refuses to accept a horrific truth. A profoundly moving exploration of being Jewish in modern Poland that Julian Barnes called "one of the most chilling books," The Crime and the Silence is a vital contribution to Holocaust history and a fascinating story of a town coming to terms with its dark past.

Author : Sheila Skaff
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781911325635

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Studying Ida by Sheila Skaff Pdf

Paweł Pawlikowski’s Academy Award-winning 2013 film Ida has drawn acclaim and controversy. Sheila Skaff explains the film's historical setting and provides political and cultural analysis to aid the reader in understanding the film’s setting and narrative. Skaff also touches on the influence of the film on current events in Poland.

Author : Matilda Mroz
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748643479

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Temporality and Film Analysis by Matilda Mroz Pdf

Matilda Mroz argues that cinema provides an ideal opportunity to engage with ideas of temporal flow and change. Temporality, however, remains an underexplored area of film analysis, which frequently discusses images as though they were still rather than moving. This book traces the operation of duration in cinema, and argues that temporality should be a central concern of film scholarship. In close readings of Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura, Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror, and the ten short films that make up Krzysztof Kie?lowski's Decalogue series, Mroz highlights how film analysis must consider both particular moments in cinema which are critically significant, and the way in which such moments interrelate in temporal flux. She explores the concepts of duration and rhythm, resonance and uncertainty, affect, sense and texture, to bring a fresh perspective to film analysis and criticism.Essential reading for students and scholars in Film Studies, this engaging study will also be a valuable resource for critical theorists.

Author : Antony Polonsky,Joanna B. Michlic
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400825813

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The Neighbors Respond by Antony Polonsky,Joanna B. Michlic Pdf

Neighbors--Jan Gross's stunning account of the brutal mass murder of the Jews of Jedwabne by their Polish neighbors--was met with international critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award in the United States. It has also been, from the moment of its publication, the occasion of intense controversy and painful reckoning. This book captures some of the most important voices in the ensuing debate, including those of residents of Jedwabne itself as well as those of journalists, intellectuals, politicians, Catholic clergy, and historians both within and well beyond Poland's borders. Antony Polonsky and Joanna Michlic introduce the debate, focusing particularly on how Neighbors rubbed against difficult old and new issues of Polish social memory and national identity. The editors then present a variety of Polish voices grappling with the role of the massacre and of Polish-Jewish relations in Polish history. They include samples of the various strategies used by Polish intellectuals and political elites as they have attempted to deal with their country's dark past, to overcome the legacy of the Holocaust, and to respond to Gross's book. The Neighbors Respond makes the debate over Neighbors available to an English-speaking audience--and is an excellent tool for bringing the discussion into the classroom. It constitutes an engrossing contribution to modern Jewish history, to our understanding of Polish modern history and identity, and to our bank of Holocaust memory.