Cinema and the Shoah: An Art Confronts the Tragedy of the Twentieth Century

From the 1930s to the present day, the extermination of Europe's Jews has driven the cinema to question its methods, techniques, and ethics, and many of the greatest films of the last sixty years bear the mark of this horrific event. This book brings together filmmakers, historians, journalists, philosophers, and researchers to explore how the Shoah (Holocaust) implicated and mobilized the cinema by profoundly questioning its modes of recounting and storytelling, and of putting visions onscreen. The book also includes a filmography listing over 300 feature-length films, short films, and documentaries about the Shoah produced between 1945 and the present. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jean-Michel Frodon is a former managing editor of Cahiers du cinema. His previous books include La critique de cinema and Le cinema chinois.