"""Night and Fog"""

A Film in History

Sylvie Lindeperg, Tom Mes

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English

University of Minnesota Press
02 March 2015

Electronic, holographic & video art; Film theory & criticism; British & Irish history

Series: Visible Evidence

An engrossing account of Alain Resnais's incomparable film, this book documents how a film that began as a cinematic spin-off of an educational exhibition became a significant step in the building of a collective consciousness of the tragedy of World War II. The book offers a unique interpretation of the interworking of biography, history, politics, and film in one cultural moment.

By: Sylvie Lindeperg
Translated by: Tom Mes
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 28
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 51mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780816679928
ISBN 10: 0816679924
Series: Visible Evidence
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 02 March 2015
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Foreword Jean-Michel Frodon Acknowledgments Introduction Abbreviations Prologue: Olga Wormser-Migot, the Missing Link Part I. Inception: A Breakdown of Gazes 1. The “Invisible Authority”: The Stakes of a Commission 2. The “ Merchants of Shadows”: A French–Polish Coproduction 3. A Journey to the East: Research and Documentation 4. Writing Four Hands 5. The Adventurous Gaze 6. The Darkness of the Editing Room 7. Suffocated Words: A Lazarian Poetry 8. Eisler’s Neverending Chant Part II. Passage and Migration 9. Tug of War with the Censors 10. The Cannes Confusion: Dissecting a Scandal 11. Germany Gets Its First Look 12. Exile from Language: Paul Celan, Translator 13. Translation Battles in the GDR 14. A Portable Memorial 15. Shifting Perspectives: An Educational Institution 16. Constructing the Cinephilic Gaze Epilogue: Olga’s Tomb Notes Index

Sylvie Lindeperg is professor of history at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is the author of many books in French, including Les Ecrans de l'ombre: La Seconde Guerre mondiale dans le cinéma francais (1944–1969). Tom Mes is the author of many books on Japanese film and cotranslator of Cinema and the Shoah. Jean-Michel Frodon is a journalist, critic, and historian of cinema.

Reviews for """Night and Fog""": A Film in History

I do not hesitate to call Sylvie Lindeperg's marvelously detailed study Night and Fog : A Film in History a major work of contemporary film historical scholarship. . . . [It] affords genuinely original historical and aesthetic insights . . . in finely wrought prose. -Stuart Liebman, Cineaste The ultimate authoritative source on Alain Resnais' groundbreaking Holocaust film Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard, 1955). [Lindeperg's] research is remarkable, and the book will be invaluable to those working in European history as well as film. This volume does remarkable service to Night and Fog, a film that in the immediate aftermath of the war challenged viewers to remember the victims of the Holocaust. -CHOICE Night and Fog gave me a context, a literal frame of art through which I could watch the unwatchable. Slyvie Lindeperg's book does something similar for the film itself, and readers willing to tackle it and the film will find the effort well rewarded. -Documentary Magazine The definitive study of Night and Fog... Historians should also appreciate it as an excellent example of the type of historical work close attention to film makes possible. -Journal of Modern History Sylvie Lindeperg's masterful Night and Fog: A Film in History is the definitive work of reference on Resnais's classic documentary. We are fortunate to have an excellent English translation of this important and beautifully written French work. -H-France Reviews