{"product_id":"concentrationary-cinema-griselda-pollock-9780857453518","title":"Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog","description":"\u003cp\u003e Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais's \u003cem\u003eNight and Fog \u003c\/em\u003e(\u003cem\u003eNuit et Brouillard\u003c\/em\u003e) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not about the Holocaust as we know it today but a political and aesthetic response to what David Rousset, the French political prisoner from Buchenwald, identified on his return in 1945 as the 'concentrationary universe' which, now actualized, might release its totalitarian plague any time and anywhere? What kind of memory does the film create to warn us of the continued presence of this concentrationary universe? This international collection re-examines Resnais's benchmark film in terms of both its political and historical context of representation of the camps and of other instances of the concentrationary in contemporary cinema. Through a range of critical readings, \u003cem\u003eConcentrationary Cinema \u003c\/em\u003eexplores the cinematic aesthetics of political resistance not to the Holocaust as such but to the political novelty of absolute power represented by the concentrationary system and its assault on the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Griselda Pollock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0857453513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780857453518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Library Binding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2012 pg. 20","brand":"Griselda Pollock","offers":[{"title":"Library Binding","offer_id":47757850935551,"sku":"9780857453518","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3893f241-cdcb-469f-bb36-11da8482907f.jpg?v=1765510760","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/concentrationary-cinema-griselda-pollock-9780857453518","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}