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Author: David Bathrick (Contributor) ,
Professor Brad Prager (Series Editor) ,
Professor Michael D. Richardson (Customer) ,
Professor Brad Prager (Series Editor)
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: Camden House Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.001kg
ISBN: 9781571133830
ISBN 10: 1571133836
Pages: 346
Publication Date: 01 June 2008
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
Should be of great interest to the archival community because the essays focus on the scholarly debates surrounding visual archival records that document the Holocaust as well as some of the related controversies . . . . (I)t is reassuring and invigorating to witness many of the scholars extolling the value and potential of (such) records. ARCHIVARIA Adds another substantial document to analyses of visual representations of the Holocaust. BIOGRAPHY Has the feel of an intense seminar. . . . What emerges from these essays is a fresh look at the canon of Holocaust representation, and therefore a new appreciation for what is seen, and how memory shapes our attempt to salvage something from the ashes. JOURNAL FOR GENOCIDE STUDIES (Michael Berenbaum) Innovative approaches to one of the most difficult issues in German film and visual culture. H-NET REVIEWS An important contribution . . . . These essays transcend the anxieties surrounding Holocaust representation that began with Adorno's aesthetic interdiction and are attuned to the fruitful possibilities of analyzing the production and reception of Holocaust imagery. SHOFAR A welcome, well-wrought contribution to the scholarship about how we deal with traumatic events, ethically, poetically, visually, and aurally. GERMAN QUARTERLY An excellent collection of essays which, without exception, are informative, well researched, reasonably argued, and lucidly written. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW Seeks to explore recent debate . . ., bringing together a range of essays on the theory and practice of visual representation of the Shoah. At the heart of this collection is inevitably the vexed issue of the Bilderverbot, the much-spoken-about unspeakability of the Holocaust. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW The strength of this volume lies in its wealth of materials and the diverse fields of study which it informs. It is theoretically astute and generously illustrated . . . thus making for a highly inspiring read. . . . (A)n essential sourcebook for scholars, graduate and undergraduate students in Holocaust and Visual Studies . . . . MONATSHEFTE
In Visualizing the Holocaust, a new generation of critics takes on the iconic images, the previously taboo topics, and the painful legacies of the Nazi genocide. From photography to film, from victims and perpetrators to the postmemory generation, from Hollywood blockbusters to avant-garde aesthetics, the critical texts, figures, and debates that define the visual culture of the Holocaust are all addressed in this wide-ranging, but remarkably coherent collection. -- Michael Rothberg, author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation and co-editor of The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings From the initial photos and motion pictures of the death camps to the most current artistic and cinematic representations, this book subtly explores the philosophical, historical, and aesthetic meaning of the images, familiar and unfamiliar, through which we see or refuse to see the Holocaust. This wide-ranging volume displays the state of the art of scholarly criticism on the place of the visual image, as icon, as symbol, and as taboo, in our contemporary imagination and memory of mass extermination. -- Anson Rabinbach, author of In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment
Author Information
BRAD PRAGER is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, Columbia. BRAD PRAGER is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
