How to see nothing : A visitor from the living [1997] / Jared Stark -- Revolt as a study in precision : Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. [2001] / Judith Kasper -- "I was a report" : The Karski Report [2010] / Alexander García Düttmann -- Testimony beyond justice : The last of the unjust [2013] / Sara Guyer -- Four sisters [2018] and Claude Lanzmann's Holocaust Film Project / Stuart Liebman -- Israeli soldiers in the eyes of the beholder : Tsahal [1994] / Brad Prager -- "Yes, this is the place" : Lanzmann between Napalm [2017] and Shoah / Michael G. Levine -- Time and the hare : Lanzmann's autobiography / Françoise Meltzer -- Self-portrait at ninety : an interview with Franck Nouchi and Juliette Simont / Claude Lanzmann.
Summary:
This volume of Yale French Studies charts the different paths the filmmaker Claude Lanzmann (1925-2018) took after the release of Shoah in 1985. These paths are explored through a consideration of his late films--Tsahal (1994), A Visitor from the Living (1997), Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001), Light and Shadows (2008), The Karski Report (2010), The Last of the Unjust (2013), Napalm (2017), and Four Sisters (2018)--and of his memoir, The Patagonian Hare. The volume also includes an English translation of his last major interview, "Self-Portrait at Ninety." The original essays collected here show that Lanzmann's late films and writing stand as something more than mere footnotes to his 1985 masterpiece. Continuing to wrestle with questions of cinematic transmission and the relationship among film, history, and testimony, they confront anew and in a variety of approaches the challenge of representing the Holocaust, and of living in its aftermath.
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