{"product_id":"9781439903957","title":"Afterimage: Film, Trauma And The Holocaust","description":"The appearance of Alain Resnais' 1955 French documentary \u003ci\u003eNight and  Fog\u003c\/i\u003e heralded the beginning of a new form of cinema, one that used the narrative techniques of modernism to provoke a new historical consciousness. \u003ci\u003eAfterimage\u003c\/i\u003e presents a theory of posttraumatic film based on the encounter between cinema and the Holocaust. Locating its origin in the vivid shock of wartime footage, \u003ci\u003eAfterimage\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on a group of crucial documentary and fiction films that were pivotal to the spread of this cinematic form across different nations and genres.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Joshua Hirsch explores the changes in documentary brought about by cinema verite, culminating in Shoah. He then turns to teh appearance of a fictional posttraumatic cinema, tracing its development through the vivid flashbacks in Resnais' \u003ci\u003eHiroshima, mon amour\u003c\/i\u003e to the portrayal of pain and memory in \u003ci\u003ePawnbroker\u003c\/i\u003e. He excavates a posttraumatic autobiography in three early films by the Hungarian Istvan Szabo. Finally, Hirsch examines the effects of postmodernism on posttraumatic cinema, looking at \u003ci\u003eSchindler's List\u003c\/i\u003e and a work about a different form of historical trauma, \u003ci\u003eHistory and Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, a  videotape dealing with the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World  War.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sweeping in its scope, \u003ci\u003eAfterimage\u003c\/i\u003e presents a new way of thinking about film and history, trauma and its representation.","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154203394288,"sku":"9781439903957","price":27.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439903957_p0.jpg?v=1763792472","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439903957","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}