“Non-sites of memory”: Poland in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah outtakes

dc.contributor.authorVice, Sue
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Dominic
dc.contributor.editorYoung, Gwendaen
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-04T09:17:37Z
dc.date.available2021-08-04T09:17:37Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis article analyses some of the 30 hours of location footage excluded from Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 Holocaust documentary Shoah. Although there has been some analysis of the outtake material in Lanzmann’s archive which consists of eyewitness interviews, very little attention has been paid to the footage of landscape, urban and camp settings, from which we have drawn these examples of Polish sites. We argue that it is possible to discern the presence of a specifically spatial memory by considering this excluded material in a way that draws on its outtake status, that is, its form of 11-minute reels unaccompanied by eyewitness presence or voiceover. The filmic construction of spaces to suit Lanzmann’s concerns is revealed if we attend to this material in its unedited state, with its constituent repetitions and exclusions, as a spatial version of the director’s customary interest in the reincarnation of the past in the present.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationVice, S. and Williams, D. (2021) '“Non-sites of memory”: Poland in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah outtakes', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 21, pp. 35-54. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.21.02en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.21.02
dc.identifier.endpage54
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued21
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphavilleen
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage35
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11658
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue21/HTML/ArticleViceWilliams.html
dc.rights© 2021, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectClaude Lanzmannen
dc.subjectPolanden
dc.subjectShoahen
dc.subjectOuttakesen
dc.subjectSpatial memoryen
dc.title“Non-sites of memory”: Poland in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah outtakesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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