Reviews
Winner of the 2012 Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Award for Best Moving Image Book "A radical new look at Resnais's pioneering film about the Nazi Holocaust. Leading experts in French cinema, art history, Holocaust studies and trauma theory confront the film's racial dimension, clarifying both its historical anchorage and lasting significance. This well-edited volume is an important addition to the scholarship on Resnais." Sandra Hebron, Nigel Floyd and Ginette Vincendeau, Best Moving Image Book Award committee "The anthology comprises essays written by several leading experts on the Holocaust and its cinematic representation, Resnais' cinema, and trauma theory. They offer a wealth of information displaying often enviable in-depth historical research on the making of the film and its problems with censorship... They also take into account films dealing with the Holocaust that preceded Night and Fog... Some authors in the anthology prefer re-framing Night and Fogthrough the prism of contemporary theories in order to offer sophisticated readings of the film." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television "...much of enormous value can be learned from those [contributors] who seek new ways to understand this still elusive, still compelling work [Night and Fog]... these essays are whetstones to sharpen one's thinking." Cineaste "One should not consider [this volume] simply as yet another book on Night and Fog; we are rather dealing with a series of studies on the theme of memory in film, on the historiography and the multiple links between film and reality...The reader who is looking for reflections and inspirations on memory and film will find substantial elements in the Introduction, which perhaps is the most accomplished part with regard to the theoretical framework. But the volume as a whole suggests a multitude of perspectives that the reader, already familiar with this film, would certainly recognize, hold on to, explore or linger over." H-France Review, Winner of the 2012 Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Award for Best Moving Image Book "A radical new look at Resnais's pioneering film about the Nazi Holocaust. Leading experts in French cinema, art history, Holocaust studies and trauma theory confront the film's racial dimension, clarifying both its historical anchorage and lasting significance. This well-edited volume is an important addition to the scholarship on Resnais." · Sandra Hebron, Nigel Floyd and Ginette Vincendeau, Best Moving Image Book Award committee "The anthology comprises essays written by several leading experts on the Holocaust and its cinematic representation, Resnais' cinema, and trauma theory. They offer a wealth of information displaying often enviable in-depth historical research on the making of the film and its problems with censorship... They also take into account films dealing with the Holocaust that preceded Night and Fog... Some authors in the anthology prefer re-framing Night and Fogthrough the prism of contemporary theories in order to offer sophisticated readings of the film." · Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television "...much of enormous value can be learned from those [contributors] who seek new ways to understand this still elusive, still compelling work [Night and Fog]... these essays are whetstones to sharpen one's thinking." · Cineaste "One should not consider [this volume] simply as yet another book on Night and Fog; we are rather dealing with a series of studies on the theme of memory in film, on the historiography and the multiple links between film and reality...The reader who is looking for reflections and inspirations on memory and film will find substantial elements in the Introduction, which perhaps is the most accomplished part with regard to the theoretical framework. But the volume as a whole suggests a multitude of perspectives that the reader, already familiar with this film, would certainly recognize, hold on to, explore or linger over." · H-France Review, Winner of the 2012 Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Award for Best Moving Image Book "A radical new look at Resnais's pioneering film about the Nazi Holocaust. Leading experts in French cinema, art history, Holocaust studies and trauma theory confront the film's racial dimension, clarifying both its historical anchorage and lasting significance.This well-edited volume is an important addition to the scholarship on Resnais." Sandra Hebron, Nigel Floyd and Ginette Vincendeau,Best Moving Image Book Award committee "The anthology comprises essays written by several leading experts on the Holocaust and its cinematic representation, Resnais' cinema, and trauma theory. They offer a wealth of information displaying often enviable in-depth historical research on the making of the film and its problems with censorship... They also take into account films dealing with the Holocaust that preceded Night and Fog... Some authors in the anthology prefer re-framing Night and Fogthrough the prism of contemporary theories in order to offer sophisticated readings of the film."Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television "...much of enormous value can be learned from those [contributors] who seek new ways to understand this still elusive, still compelling work [Night and Fog]... these essays are whetstones to sharpen one's thinking." Cineaste "One should not consider [this volume] simply as yet another book on Night and Fog; we are rather dealing with a series of studies on the theme of memory in film, on the historiography and the multiple links between film and reality...The reader who is looking for reflections and inspirations on memory and film will find substantial elements in the Introduction, which perhaps is the most accomplished part with regard to the theoretical framework. But the volume as a whole suggests a multitude of perspectives that the reader, already familiar with this film, would certainly recognize, hold on to, explore or linger over." H-France Review, "A radical new look at Resnais's pioneering film about the Nazi Holocaust. Leading experts in French cinema, art history, Holocaust studies and trauma theory confront the film's racial dimension, clarifying both its historical anchorage and lasting significance. This well-edited volume is an important addition to the scholarship on Resnais." · Sandra Hebron, Nigel Floyd and Ginette Vincendeau, Best Moving Image Book Award committee "The anthology comprises essays written by several leading experts on the Holocaust and its cinematic representation, Resnais' cinema, and trauma theory. They offer a wealth of information displaying often enviable in-depth historical research on the making of the film and its problems with censorship... They also take into account films dealing with the Holocaust that preceded Night and Fog... Some authors in the anthology prefer re-framing Night and Fogthrough the prism of contemporary theories in order to offer sophisticated readings of the film." · Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television "...much of enormous value can be learned from those [contributors] who seek new ways to understand this still elusive, still compelling work [Night and Fog]... these essays are whetstones to sharpen one's thinking." · Cineaste "One should not consider [this volume] simply as yet another book on Night and Fog; we are rather dealing with a series of studies on the theme of memory in film, on the historiography and the multiple links between film and reality...The reader who is looking for reflections and inspirations on memory and film will find substantial elements in the Introduction, which perhaps is the most accomplished part with regard to the theoretical framework. But the volume as a whole suggests a multitude of perspectives that the reader, already familiar with this film, would certainly recognize, hold on to, explore or linger over." · H-France Review, Winner of the 2012 Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Award for Best Moving Image Book "A radical new look at Resnais's pioneering film about the Nazi Holocaust. Leading experts in French cinema, art history, Holocaust studies and trauma theory confront the film's racial dimension, clarifying both its historical anchorage and lasting significance. This well-edited volume is an important addition to the scholarship on Resnais." Sandra Hebron, Nigel Floyd and Ginette Vincendeau, Best Moving Image Book Award committee "The anthology comprises essays written by several leading experts on the Holocaust and its cinematic representation, Resnais' cinema, and trauma theory. They offer a wealth of information displaying often enviable in-depth historical research on the making of the film and its problems with censorship... They also take into account films dealing with the Holocaust that preceded Night and Fog... Some authors in the anthology prefer re-framing Night and Fogthrough the prism of contemporary theories in order to offer sophisticated readings of the film." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television "...much of enormous value can be learned from those [contributors] who seek new ways to understand this still elusive, still compelling work [Night and Fog]... these essays are whetstones to sharpen one's thinking." Cineaste "One should not consider [this volume] simply as yet another book on Night and Fog; we are rather dealing with a series of studies on the theme of memory in film, on the historiography and the multiple links between film and reality...The reader who is looking for reflections and inspirations on memory and film will find substantial elements in the Introduction, which perhaps is the most accomplished part with regard to the theoretical framework. But the volume as a whole suggests a multitude of perspectives that the reader, already familiar with this film, would certainly recognize, hold on to, explore or linger over." H-France Review, Winner of the 2012 Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Award for Best Moving Image Book "A radical new look at Resnais's pioneering film about the Nazi Holocaust. Leading experts in French cinema, art history, Holocaust studies and trauma theory confront the film's racial dimension, clarifying both its historical anchorage and lasting significance. This well-edited volume is an important addition to the scholarship on Resnais." · Sandra Hebron, Nigel Floyd and Ginette Vincendeau, Best Moving Image Book Award committee "...much of enormous value can be learned from those [contributors] who seek new ways to understand this still elusive, still compelling work [Night and Fog]... these essays are whetstones to sharpen one's thinking." · Cineaste "One should not consider [this volume] simply as yet another book on Night and Fog; we are rather dealing with a series of studies on the theme of memory in film, on the historiography and the multiple links between film and reality...The reader who is looking for reflections and inspirations on memory and film will find substantial elements in the Introduction, which perhaps is the most accomplished part with regard to the theoretical framework. But the volume as a whole suggests a multitude of perspectives that the reader, already familiar with this film, would certainly recognize, hold on to, explore or linger over." · H-France Review
