Object's details: Images which are not there. The Representations of the Final Solution in the Examples of Son of Saul and Kornblumenblau

Provider:Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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Title:
Images which are not there. The Representations of the Final Solution in the Examples of Son of Saul and Kornblumenblau
Creator:
Jankowska, Agata
Description:
Since the problem of representing the Holocaust first emerged, philosophers, writers and filmmakers have tried to find appropriate aesthetic methods of expression. Two approaches dominate the thinking about the Shoah: Claude Lanzmann’s claim of “the event without images” and George Didi-Huberman’s “images in spite of all”. The author’s analysis deconstructs these two theoretical approaches through the interpretation of two films: the Polish Kornblumenblau and the Hungarian Son of Saul and the notion of “the images which are not there”, that is, the non-existent photographs of the Nazi “Final Solution”. The main thesis of the essay states that cinematic representation and artistic expression can substitute for the lack of historical and visual (mostly photographic) depictions of the Holocaust. With the inspiration of theory (Giorgio Agamben, Siegfried Kracauer), I consider different methods of dealing with the dilemma of “unimaginable Auschwitz” and the concept of “bare life” as an aesthetical problem.
Object availability:
free access
Rights:
Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 Agata Jankowska;
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pl
Date:
2023.10.20
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
Artykuł naukowy;
recenzja;
wywiad
Language:
English
Source:
Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Vol. 34 No. 43 (2023): The Special Issue: Ukraine in Flames; 345-358;
Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Tom 34 Nr 43 (2023): The Special Issue: Ukraine in Flames; 345-358;
2720-040X;
1731-450X
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/39851/33641
Subject:
Holocaust;
Holocaust studies;
visuality;
Holocaust movies;
cinema;
representation;
film theory;
Kornblumenblau;
Son of Saul;
bare life
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/39851
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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