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Holocaust Intersections Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium leGeNda legenda, founded in 1995 by the european Humanities Research Centre of the University of Oxford, is now a joint imprint of the Modern Humanities Research association and Routledge. Titles range from medieval texts to contemporary cinema and form a widely comparative view of the modern humanities, including works on arabic, Catalan, english, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish literature. an editorial Board of distinguished academic specialists works in collaboration with leading scholarly bodies such as the Society for French Studies and the British Comparative literature association. The Modern Humanities Research association (mhra) encourages and promotes advanced study and research in the field of the modern humanities, especially modern european languages and literature, including english, and also cinema. 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It publishes thousands of books and journals each year, serving scholars, instructors, and professional communities worldwide. www.routledge.com MOVING IMaGe Editorial Committee Professor emma Wilson, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (General editor) Professor Robert Gordon, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Professor annette Kuhn, Queen Mary, University of london Professor Jo labanyi, New York University legenda/Moving Image publishes cutting-edge work on any aspect of film or screen media from europe and latin america. Studies of european-language cinemas from other continents, and diasporic and intercultural cinemas (with some relation to europe or its languages), are also encompassed. The series seeks to reflect a diversity of theoretical, historical, and interdisciplinary approaches to the moving image, and includes projects comparing screen media with other art forms. Research monographs and collected volumes will be considered, but not studies of a single film. as innovation is a priority for the series, volumes should predominantly consist of previously unpublished material. Proposals should be sent with one or two sample chapters to the editor, Professor emma Wilson, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge cb2 1rh, UK. appearing in this series 1. Spanish Practices: Literature, Cinema, Television, by Paul Julian Smith 2. Cinema and Contact: The Withdrawal of Touch in Nancy, Bresson, Duras and Denis, by laura McMahon 3. Cinema’s Inter-Sensory Encounters: Krzysztof Kieślowski and Claire Denis, by Georgina evans 4. Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium, edited by axel Bangert, Robert S. C. Gordon and libby Saxton 5. Africa’s Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema, edited by lizelle Bisschoff and david Murphy Managing Editor dr Graham Nelson, 41 Wellington Square, Oxford ox1 2jf, UK www.legendabooks.com Holocaust Intersections Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium ❖ edited by axel Bangert, Robert S. C. Gordon and libby Saxton Moving Image 4 Modern Humanities Research association and Routledge 2013 First published 2013 Published by the Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA LEGENDA is an imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © Modern Humanities Research Association and Taylor & Francis 2013 I S B N 9 7 8 - 1 - 9 0 7 9 7 5 - 0 2 - 8 (hbk) All rights reserved. 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Contents ❖ Acknowledgements ix Notes on the Contributors x Introduction 1 axel bangert, robert s. c. gordon and libby saxton PaRT I: BeTWeeN NaTIONS 1 Between National and Cosmopolitan: Twenty-First-Century Holocaust Television in Britain, France, and Italy 24 emiliano perra 2 Collecting, Indexing and digitizing Survivor accounts: Holocaust Testimonies in the digital age 46 judith keilbach PaRT II: BeTWeeN IMaGeS 3 Transits: essayistic Thinking at the Junctures of Images in Harun Farocki’s Respite and arnaud des Pallières’s Drancy Avenir 66 laura rascaroli 4 Haneke and the Camps 84 max silverman PaRT III: BeTWeeN GeNReS 5 The Nazi Killin’ Business: a Postmodern Pastiche of the Holocaust 98 ferzina banaji 6 Globalizing the Holocaust: Fantasies of annihilation in Contemporary Media Culture 112 barry langford PaRT IV: BeTWeeN MedIa 7 Re-Imagining the Neighbour: Polish-Jewish Relations in Contemporary Polish Visual Culture 132 matilda mroz 8 Performing Cultural Memory: The Holocaust in dutch Multi-Platform Television documentary 148 berber hagedoorn PaRT V: BeTWeeN GeNOCIdeS 9 Cambodian Genocide: ethics and aesthetics in the Cinema of Rithy Panh 170 annette hamilton 10 The afterlife of Images: Rwanda 191 piotr cieplak and emma wilson Bibliography 206 Index 223 ACKnoWLeDGeMents ❖ This publication was made possible by generous support from the Department of German and Dutch, University of Cambridge, the Department of Italian, University of Cambridge and the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary University of London. The editors would like to thank Graham Nelson, Managing Editor at Legenda, for his support during the assembly of this volume and Alex Lloyd for her copy-editing. We would also like to express our gratitude towards Emma Wilson, General Editor of the Moving Image Series, as well as towards the other members of the editorial committee. We are also extremely grateful to Gil Kofman for allowing us to use a production still from his feature film The Memory Thief as cover image, and to Nan Taplin for her assistance in the assembly of the manuscript. Last but not least, the editors would like to thank their colleagues and students at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge and the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary University of London for their support. a.b., r.s.c.g., l.s., January 2013
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