Beschämende Bilder: Deutsche Reaktionen auf allierte Dokumentarfilme über befreite Konzentrationslager, Ulrike Weckel (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2012), 672 pp., hardcover €76.00
Nearly seventy years after the end of World War II, and despite the prominence in popular culture of mediated representations of the Holocaust, images captured during and immediately after liberation of the camps—both photographs and film—remain important for our understanding of events. Most import...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 296-298 |
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| Summary: | Nearly seventy years after the end of World War II, and despite the prominence in popular culture of mediated representations of the Holocaust, images captured during and immediately after liberation of the camps—both photographs and film—remain important for our understanding of events. Most importantly, they continue to fulfill the purpose for which they were made. They visually document atrocities so enormous that oral and written accounts—no matter how precise—can be met with incredulity. But, as with all documentary images, they can also be understood in terms of their dual subjective character: in terms of the photographer, cameraman, or director's intentional composition—what was included, what was excluded; and in terms of the image's afterlife, i.e. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcv040 |