Published 2016-07-31
Keywords
- Holocaust,
- Trauma,
- Memory,
- Concentrationary space,
- Theatre.
How to Cite
Ramos Gay, I. (2016). Staging absence: ’Shoah’ by Claude Lanzmann (1985). L’Atalante. Journal of Film Studies, (22), 45–54. https://doi.org/10.63700/349
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to explore the elements of theatricality employed in Claude Lanzmann’s film, Shoah (1985), so as to stage the concept of absence. First, I will analyse the performative and discursive procedures used in order to resuscitate the witness’ past experience. Secondly, I will examine the director’s symbolism of concentrationary time and space as agents enabling the visualization of the trauma.
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Blanchot, Maurice (1980). <em>L’écriture du désastre</em>. Paris: Gallimard. <br>
Camper, Fred (2007) Shoah’s Absence. In Stuart Liebman, <em>Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah: Key Essays</em>, New York : Oxford University Press, 103-111. <br>
Clendinnen, Inga (1999). <em>Reading the Holocaust</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<br>
Colombat, André (1993). <em>The Holocaust in French Film</em>. New York: Scarecrow Press. <br>
Cuau, Bernard y Deguy, Michel (eds.) (1990). A<em>u sujet de la Shoah: le Film de Claude Lanzmann</em>. Paris: Belin.<br>
Doherty, Thomas (1987). Representing the Holocaust: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah. <em>Film & History</em>, 17 (1), 2-8. <br>
Felman, Shoshana (2000). In an Era of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, <em>Yale French Studies</em>, 97, 103-150. <br>
Geller, Jay (1985). The Rites of Responsibility: The Cinematic Rhetoric of Claude Nazmann’s Shoah (1985). <em>Film & History</em>, 32 (1), 30-37. <br>
Gelley, Ora (1998). A Response to Dominick LaCapra’s «Lanzmann’s Shoah». <em>Critical Inquiry</em>, 24 (3), 830-832, <br>
Lacapra, Dominick (1997). Lanzmann’s «Shoah»: «Here There Is No Why». <em>Critical Inquiry</em>, 23 (2), 231-269. <br>
Langer, Lawrence L. (1991). <em>Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory</em>. New Haven: Yale University Press. <br>
Lanzmann, Claude (1985). <em>Shoah</em>. Préface de Simone de Beauvoir. Paris: Gallimard. <br>
Levi, Primo (1987 [1947]). <em>Si c’est un homme</em> [Se questo è un uomo]. Martine Schruoffeneger, trad. Paris: Juilliard. <br>
Liebman, Stuart (2007). <em>Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah: Key Essays</em>. New York: Oxford University Press. <br>
Moser, Keith (2010). The Poignant Combination of Beauty and Horror in the Aesthetic Representations of the Holocaust in Lanzmann’s Shoah and Le Clézio’s ‘Étoile Errante’. <em>Dalhousie French Studies</em>, 92, 75-83. <br>
Sánchez-Biosca, Vicente (2009). Sombras de guerra : Las imágenes cinematográficas de la Shoah. <em>Historia Social</em>, 63, 111-132. <br>
Skloot, Robert (2012). Lanzmann’s Shoah after Twenty-Five Years : An Overview and a Further View. <em>Holocaust and Genocide Studies</em>, 26 (2), 261-275. <br>
Spiegel, Gabrielle M. (2002). Memory and History: Liturgical Time and Historical Time. <em>History and Theory</em>, 41, 149-162.
Surgers, Anne (2007). <em>Scénographies du théâtre occidental</em>. Paris: Armand Colin.</p>