Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema

Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge

Matilda Mroz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

298 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2020
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-46165-0 (ISBN)

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This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary Polish cinema’s engagement with histories of Polish violence against their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust. Moving beyond conventional studies of historical representation on screen, the book considers how cinema reframes the unwanted knowledge of violence in its aftermaths. The book draws on Derridean hauntology, Didi-Huberman’s confrontations with art images, Levinasian ethics and anamorphosis to examine cinematic reconfigurations of histories and memories that are vulnerable to evasion and formlessness. Innovative analyses of Birthplace (Łoziński, 1992), It Looks Pretty From a Distance (Sasnal, 2011), Aftermath (Pasikowski, 2012), and Ida (Pawlikowski, 2013) explore how their rural filmic landscapes are predicated on the radical exclusion of Jewish neighbours, prompting archaeological processes of exhumation. Arguing that the distressing materiality of decomposition disturbs cinematic composition, the book examines how Poland’s aftermath cinema attempts to recompose itself through form and narrative as it faces Polish complicity in Jewish death.

Matilda Mroz is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Prior to this she was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex, a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow and Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of several works on cinema, including Temporality and Film Analysis (2012).

1. Aftermath cinema: unwanted knowledge, unwanted images.- 2. Earth and bone: framing posthumous materialities.- 3. Posthumous landscapes and the earth-archive: archaeology, ethics and Birthplace.- 4. Aftermath’s cinematic séance: anamorphosis, spectrality, and sentient matter.- 5. The fabric with its rend: framing grief, materialising loss, and Ida’s temporalities.- 6. A film found on a scrapheap: abjection, informe, and It Looks Pretty From A Distance

Erscheinungsdatum	24.02.2021
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Film Studies and Philosophy
Zusatzinfo	17 Illustrations, color; 9 Illustrations, black and white; X, 298 p. 26 illus., 17 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
Schlagworte	History • Holocaust • Memory • Memory Studies • World War II
ISBN-10	1-137-46165-9 / 1137461659
ISBN-13	978-1-137-46165-0 / 9781137461650
Zustand	Neuware