Night and fog : a film in history /
François Truffaut called Night and Fog "the greatest film ever made." But when Alain Resnais finished his documentary, with its depiction of Nazi atrocities, the resistance of the French censors was fierce. A mere decade had passed since the end of the war, and the French public was unprep...
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London :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Visible evidence ;
v. 28. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Olga Wormser-Migot, the missing ling
- Part 1. The film's inception : a failure of gazes. The "invisible authority" : the stakes of a commission ; The "merchants of shadows" : a French-Polish coproduction ; A journey to the east : research and documentation ; Writing four hands ; The adventurous gaze ; The darkness of the editing room ; Suffocated words : a Lazarian poetry ; Eisler's neverending chant
- Part 2. Passage and migration. Tug of war with the censors ; The Cannes confusion : dissecting a scandal ; Germany gets its first look ; Exile from language : Paul Celan, translator ; Translation battles in the GDR ; A portable memorial ; Shifting perspectives : institution ; Constructing the cinephilic gaze
- Epilogue: Olga's epitaph.
