The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its OuttakesErin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselsberger
In 1985 Claude Lanzmann released his nine-and-a-half-hour nonfiction film Shoah. Five years later (1990), when asked about the footage he had not included, he responded: “My wish would be to destroy it. I have not done it. I will probably not do it. But if I followed my inclination I would destroy i...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 468-470 |
| Review of: | The construction of testimony (Detroit, Michiagan : Wayne State University Press, 2020) (Geller, Jay)
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| Summary: | In 1985 Claude Lanzmann released his nine-and-a-half-hour nonfiction film Shoah. Five years later (1990), when asked about the footage he had not included, he responded: “My wish would be to destroy it. I have not done it. I will probably not do it. But if I followed my inclination I would destroy it. This, at least, would prove that Shoah is not a documentary” (p. 6). He did not follow his inclination, and in 1996 the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) acquired the more than 220 hours of outtakes, including location as well as interview footage, but excluding all film from the theatrical release of Shoah. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcab043 |