Visualizing the Holocaust : documents, aesthetics, memory / edited by David Bathrick, Brad Prager, and Michael D. Richardson.

Contributor Bathrick, David.

Imprint:Rochester N.Y. : Camden House, 2008.

Descriptionvi, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction: Seeing against the grain: re-visualizing the Holocaust / David Bathrick -- On the liberation of perpetrator photographs in Holocaust narratives / Brad Prager -- The interpreter's dilemma: Heinrich Jöst's Warsaw ghetto photographs / Daniel H. Magilow -- Whose trauma is it? Identification and secondry witnessing in the age of postmemory / Elke Heckner -- No child left behind: Anne Frank exhibits, American abduction narratives, and Nazi bogeymen / L.J. Nicoletti -- Auschwitz as hermeneutic rupture, differend, and image malgré tout: Jameson, Lyotard, Didi-Huberman / Sven-Erik Rose -- Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and the intentionality of the image / Michael D'Arcy -- For and against the Bilderverbot: the rhetoric of "unrepresentability" and remediated "authenticity" in the German reception of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List / Karyn Ball -- Celan's cinematic: anxiety of the gaze in Night and Fog and "Engführung" / Eric Lingerman -- Affect in the archive: Arendt, Eichmann and The Specialist / Darcy C. Buerkle -- Home-made movies, film-diaries, and mass bodies: Peter Forgács's Free Fall into the Holocaust / Jaimey Fisher -- Laughter and catastrophe: Train of Life and tragicomic Holocaust cinema / David A. Brenner -- "Heil Myself!" Impersonation and identity in comedic representations of Hitler / Michael D. Richardson.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-319) and index.

Bibliography Note:Includes filmography: p. [321]-323.

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