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

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).


---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------