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090    D804.32 |b.S36 2001
100 1  Schowalter, Daniel F.
245 10 Images of traumatic history : |bthe visual rhetorics of Holocaust / |cDaniel F. Schowalter.
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2001.
300    viii, 326 pages
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
502    Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 2001.
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-326).
520     There is a conspicuous disparity between discourses engaging the European Holocaust (the Shoah) and those engaging the American Indian Holocaust within the popular imagination. Documentary film and photography enjoy a special license and authority to make historical claims regarding these traumas but always function within a rhetorical economy consisting of interrelationships between the constructs of history, power, and images. This project argues that there is a direct link between the visibility of a traumatic history and the legitimacy that it is granted as holocaust. For example, the Shoah is a highly visible trauma that constitutes and is constituted by a rich and coherent imagery that seems to access trauma effortlessly and even eloquently. The imagery of the American Indian Holocaust, however, is less visible and coherent and therefore it cannot claim a comparable level of legitimacy. This project explores the forms and functions of documentary images, how this level of visibility is attained and denied, how trauma is accessed and how it is emptied, and how images write, rewrite, and erase histories. Within this particular context the project concludes by sketching some recurring and fundamental constituents of a visual rhetoric including the polysemy, self-reflexivity, and fragmentation of the image as well as the value of a critical paradigm that emphasizes a visual-rhetorical economy over a visual culture.
530    Electronic version(s)  |bavailable internally at USHMM.
533    Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2002. |e23 cm.
590     Dissertations and Theses
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPictorial works.
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
650  0 Indians of North America |vPictorial works.
650  0 Indians in motion pictures.
650  0 Memory |xSocial aspects.
655  7 Illustrated works. |2lcgft
856 41  |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=725928881&sid=20&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest
956 41  |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib72419/3024275.pdf  |z Hosted by USHMM.
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