- Summary
- "This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary Polish films that engage with histories of Polish violence against their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust. Moving beyond conventional studies of historical representation on screen, Matilda Mroz considers how documentary and fiction films reframe the unwanted knowledge of violent crimes in their aftermaths. Drawing on Derridean hauntology, Didi-Huberman's confrontations with art images, Levinasian ethics, as well as abjection, anamorphosis and formlessness, the book examines how Polish aftermath cinema reconfigures Holocaust histories in political climates of erasure and silencing. Innovative analyses of Birthplace (Łoziński, 1992), It Looks Pretty From a Distance (Sasnal and Sasnal, 2011), Aftermath (Pasikowski, 2012), and Ida (Pawlikowski, 2013) contend that their rural landscapes are predicated on Jewish death, prompting archaeological processes of exhumation. Mroz explores how the distressing materiality of decomposition disturbs cinematic composition, and traces the filmic entanglements between human remains, the natural environment, bystander behaviour, and archival matter."--Back cover.
- Series
- Palgrave film studies and philosophy
Palgrave film studies and philosophy.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Mroz, Matilda, author.
- Published
- London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
©2020
- Locale
- Poland
- Contents
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1. Polish 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.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Polish 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.
