Cinematic Intermedialities and Contemporary Holocaust Memory

This book explores the growing trend of intermediality in cinematic representations of the Holocaust. It turns to the in-betweens that characterise the cinematic experience to discover how the different elements involved in film and its viewing collaborat

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Cinematic Intermedialities and Contemporary Holocaust Memory

Victoria Grace Walden

Cinematic Intermedialities and Contemporary Holocaust Memory

Victoria Grace Walden University of Sussex Brighton, UK

ISBN 978-3-030-10876-2 ISBN 978-3-030-10877-9  (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10877-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018967757 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image: © Ira Nowinski/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images Cover design by Oscar Spigolon This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Acknowledgements

Cinematic Intermedialities is a book that recognises the agency of both humans and non-humans in the production of Holocaust memory, it is thus fitting that I acknowledge not only the people who have supported this work, but also the experiences and encounters with things that have inspired it. This book would not have been written were it not for the countless trips to a variety of former killings sites across Europe, from the forests of Lithuania and Latvia to the Nazi death camps now transformed into memorials and museums in Poland, from contemporary memorials in Berlin to abandoned and forgotten ruins in Alderney, the Channel Islands. Since my first Holocaust research trip in 2010, I have been inquisitive about the relationship between film, and screen media more broadly, and the topography of Holocaust memory, and I cannot forget the influence that visiting these places has had on my work, particularly my fascination with the material remnants that point to absence, and my gravitation towards films that foreground victims as individual people. I also cannot forget how paying close attention to the movements o