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Book SynopsisTrade Review"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
Table of ContentsContents
Foreword
Jean-Michel Frodon
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations
Prologue: Olga Wormser-Migot, the Missing Link
Part I. Inception: A Breakdown of Gazes
1. The “Invisible Authority”: The Stakes of a Commission
2. The “ Merchants of Shadows”: A French–Polish Coproduction
3. A Journey to the East: Research and Documentation
4. Writing Four Hands
5. The Adventurous Gaze
6. The Darkness of the Editing Room
7. Suffocated Words: A Lazarian Poetry
8. Eisler’s Neverending Chant
Part II. Passage and Migration
9. Tug of War with the Censors
10. The Cannes Confusion: Dissecting a Scandal
11. Germany Gets Its First Look
12. Exile from Language: Paul Celan, Translator
13. Translation Battles in the GDR
14. A Portable Memorial
15. Shifting Perspectives: An Educational Institution
16. Constructing the Cinephilic Gaze
Epilogue: Olga’s Tomb
Notes
Index
