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[Commlist] New book: Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema: Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge

Tue May 25 14:04:16 GMT 2021




Book Announcement: Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema: Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge
Dear All,
I'd like to announce the publication of my new book - Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema: Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge - with Palgrave Macmillan’s Film Studies and Philosophy series.
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137461650

This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary Polish cinema’s engagement with histories of Polish violence against their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust. Moving beyond conventional studies of historical representation on screen, the book considers how cinema reframes the unwanted knowledge of violence in its aftermaths. The book draws on Derridean hauntology, Didi-Huberman’s confrontations with art images, Levinasian ethics and anamorphosis to examine cinematic reconfigurations of histories and memories that are vulnerable to evasion and formlessness. Innovative analyses of Birthplace (Łoziński, 1992), It Looks Pretty From a Distance (Sasnal, 2011), Aftermath (Pasikowski, 2012), and Ida (Pawlikowski, 2013) explore how their rural filmic landscapes are predicated on the radical exclusion of Jewish neighbours, prompting archaeological processes of exhumation. Arguing that the distressing materiality of decomposition disturbs cinematic composition, the book examines how Poland’s aftermath cinema attempts to recompose itself through form and narrative as it faces Polish complicity in Jewish death.

Endorsement: “This trenchant book looks with great sensitivity and candour at the ‘unwanted knowledge’ of Polish perpetration during the Holocaust. Engaging brilliantly with theorists of the imagination and the image, and broader discussions of film and violence, Mroz closes in on four contemporary Polish films which contend in different ways with hidden acts of torture and murder. Her vital and illuminating readings make a case for the importance of film as medium for reflection on history, knowledge, and the psyche. This is crucial reading for anyone interested in genocide and film.” (Emma Wilson, Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts, University of Cambridge)

About the Author: Matilda Mroz is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Prior to this she was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex, a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow and Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of several works on cinema, including Temporality and Film Analysis (2012).


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