3. The Act of Digging

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Introduction. The Next Chapter in the History of Holocaust Cinema 1
5. Part One. The past and its presence
6. 1. Transformations of Holocaust Memory 23
7. 2. Supplementing Shoah 41
8. 3. The Act of Digging 59
9. 4. The Willing Amnesia 76
10. 5. Wilhelm Brasse’s Photographs from Auschwitz 95
11. Part two. The ethics of memory
12. 6. The Singular Jew 117
13. 7. Locked doors and Hidden Graves 141
14. 8. The Ethics of Perspective and the Holocaust Archive 161
15. Part three. The legacy of evil
16. 9. ‘The doctor is different’ 183
17. 10. On the Cinematic Nazi 203
18. 11. The Holocaust as Case Study 221
19. 12. TV as a Historical Archive? 242
20. Index 260