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  • Palimpsestic Memory

    The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film

    by Max Silverman ...
    The interconnections between histories and memories of the Holocaust, colonialism and extreme violence in post-war French and Francophone fiction and film provide the central focus of this book. It proposes a new model of ‘palimpsestic memory’, which the author defines as the condensation of different spatio-temporal traces, to describe these interconnections and defines the poetics and the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Concentrationary Cinema

    Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog

    Edited by Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman ...
    Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not about the Holocaust as we know it today but a political and aesthetic response to what David Rousset, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Concentrationary Memories

    Totalitarian Terror and Cultural Resistance

    Edited by Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman ...
    Series series New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
    In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the unacknowledged legacy of a totalitarian mentality has seeped into the deepest recesses of everyday popular culture. It asks if the concentrationary ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Concentrationary Imaginaries

    Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture

    Edited by Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman ...
    Series series New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
    In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the unacknowledged legacy of a totalitarian mentality has seeped into the deepest recesses of everyday popular culture. It asks if the concentrationary ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Concentrationary Art

    Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts

    Edited by Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman ...
    Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of French poet, novelist and camp survivor Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His concept of a concentrationary art—the need for an urgent and constant aesthetic resistance to the continuing effects of the concentrationary universe—proved to be a major influence for Hannah Arendt and other ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Facing Postmodernity

    Contemporary French Thought

    by Max Silverman ...
    Facing Postmodernity explains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today such as:* the breaking of the city* racism* the crisis of culture* new citizenship.It discusses some of the major responses to postmodernity by contemporary French thinkers, both the very well known -Lyotard, Levinas, Derrida - and those who will be less familiar to a non-French ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Simone de Beauvoir - A Beginner's Guide

    by Alison Holland ...
    Series series BGKF
    Simone de Beauvoir was among the 20th century's most influential thinkers. She was a philosopher at the forefront of existentialism, a pioneering thinker on women and feminism in ""The Second Sex"", the writer of prize-winning fiction, an autobiographical writer and a committed political activist. Introducing her life and work in a straightforward, jargon-free way, this guide offers readings of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Multidirectional Memory

    Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization

    by Michael Rothberg ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the unexpected context of decolonization. On the one hand, it demonstrates how the Holocaust has enabled the articulation of other histories of ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • History, Literature, Critical Theory

    by Dominick LaCapra ...
    In History, Literature, Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex relations between history and literature, here considering history as both process and representation. A trio of chapters at the center of the volume concern the ways in which history and literature (particularly the novel) impact and question each other. In one of the chapters LaCapra revisits ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

    Edited by Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, Ann Pellegrini ...
    Series series Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
    The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • European Film Theory

    Edited by Temenuga Trifonova ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    European Film Theory explores the ‘Europeanness’ of European film theory, its philosophical origins, the ‘culture wars’ between ‘Continental’ and ‘Analytical’ film theory and philosophy, the major discursive and epistemological shifts in the history of Continental film theory, the relationship between Continental philosophy of art and philosophy of history and European film theory. Writing from a ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

    Images, Memory, and the Ethics of Representation

    Edited by Gerd Bayer, Oleksandr Kobrynskyy ...
    In the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century, a large number of films were produced in Europe, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere addressing the historical reality and the legacy of the Holocaust. Contemporary Holocaust cinema exists at the intersection of national cultural traditions, aesthetic conventions, and the inner logic of popular forms of entertainment. It also reacts to ... Read more

    $28.49 USD