Overview
An engrossing account of Alain Resnais'sincomparable film, this book documents how a film that began as a cinematicspin-off of an educational exhibition became a significant step in the buildingof a collective consciousness of the tragedy of World War II. The book offers aunique interpretation of the interworking of biography, history, politics, andfilm in one cultural moment.
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Author: Sylvie Lindeperg ,
Tom Mes
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Volume: 28
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 5.10cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780816679928
ISBN 10: 0816679924
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 21 December 2014
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
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
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
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 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 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
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
Author Information
Sylvie Lindeperg is professor of history at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. She is the author of many books in French, including Les Ecrans de l'ombre: La Seconde Guerre mondiale dans le cinema francais (19441969). 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.
