Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Plates from Night and Fog vii
4. List of Figures ix
5. Foreword xi
6. Acknowledgements xii
7. Introduction: Concentrationary Cinema 1
8. 1. Night and Fog: A History of Gazes 55
9. 2. Memory of the Camps: The Rescue of an Abandoned Film 71
10. 3. Opening the Camps, Closing the Eyes: Image, History, Readability 84
11. 4. Resnais and the Dead 126
12. 5. Night and Fog and the Concentrationary Gaze 140
13. 6. Auschwitz as Allegory in Night and Fog 152
14. 7. Night and Fog and Posttraumatic Cinema 184
15. 8. Fearful Imagination: Night and Fog and Concentrationary Memory 200
16. 9. Disruptive Histories: Towards a Radical Politics of Remembrance in Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog 215
17. 10. Cinema as a Slaughterbench of History: Night and Fog 239
18. 11. Death in the Image: The Responsibility of Aesthetics in Night and Fog (1955) and Kapò (1959) 259
19. Bibliography 303
20. Notes on Contributors 321
21. Index 325