Livre - Through a lens darkly
791.43 HEL
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Livre
Peter Lang
Helmick Raymond G.
Presentation materielle : 1 vol. (xxi -283 p.)
Dimensions : 23 cm
While the ashes of the Holocaust were still fresh, Polish Jewish attorney Raphael Lemkin put a name to the tragedy that had decimated his family – genocide. The twentieth century was brutally scarred by the massive scale of genocide and its manifest forms of ethnic cleansing, massacres, and atrocities. We ask how these horrors can be visually translated to the screen while both maintaining their authenticity and serving as commercial «entertainment». Through an analysis of a series of poignant films on the plight of the Native Americans, the controversial Armenian genocide, the Holocaust and its legacy, the killing fields of Cambodia, and the Hutu-sponsored massacres in Rwanda, the reader can grasp the driving mechanisms of genocide and ethnic cleansing. The oft-repeated, «Never again» rings hollow to our ears in the wake of these tragedies in a post-Holocaust era. The films discussed here, both features and documentaries, are set in an historical context that sheds light on the dark side of humanity and are then discussed with the hope of better understanding our frailty. In the end, however, we ask can the «unrepresentable» ever be represented? John J. Michalczyk, film professor and Director of Film Studies at Boston College, is the author of 10 books and numerous articles on the relationships of film, literature, and political thought. Since 1991, he has been involved in documentary filmmaking, having completed 20 films, notably on social justice issues, including conflict resolution. His documentaries, especially Nazi Medicine: In the Shadow of the Reich, have been broadcast nationally and internationally. Raymond G. Helmick, SJ, teaches ecumenical theology and conflict transformation at Boston College. He has worked as mediator, counselor, and an interpreter of events in many conflicts since 1972 – in Northern Ireland, the Middle East (Israelis and Palestinians, Lebanese, the Kurds of Iraq and Turkey), the Balkans, and several other sites. He has collaborated with John J. Michalczyk on nine documentary films on conflict resolution topics.
Lists of Figures, p. ix John J. Michalczyk, Acknowledgements, p. xi Raymond G. Helmick, SJ, Foreword, p.xiii John J. Michalczyk, Introduction, p.xvii PART ONE: TRAIL OF TEARS: CLEANSING THE LAND OF THE INDIAN “PROBLEM” Jordan Jennings: «Make His Paths Straight»: Removing the Indian Obstacle to US Expansion, p. 3 Marilyn J. Matelski: Stagecoach (1939) and the Image of «Indians» in John Ford’s Films, p. 8 Nancy Lynch Street: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007): The Epic Fall of the American Indian, p. 17 PART TWO: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: “WHO REMEMBERS ?” Dikran M. Kaligian: The Armenian Genocide: History and Turkish Government Denial? P. 31 Devin O. Pendas: Atom Egoyan’s Ararat (2002) and the Critique of Diplomatic Reason? P. 38 Paul Bookbinder: Everyone’s Not Here (1987): Families of the Armenian Genocide? P. 48 PART THREE: NANKING: EVIL UNLEASHED You Guo (Joseph) Jiang, SJ: The Rape of Nanking from a Chinese Perspective, p. 55 Rebecca Nedostup: City of Life and Death (Nanjing! Nanjing! 2009) and the Silenced Nanjing Native, p. 62 Jeremy Clarke, SJ: Nanking (2007): «A Question of Righteousness», p. 67 PART FOUR: HOLOCAUST/SHOAH: A MORAL TRAGEDY AND WHERE WAS MAN ? John J. Michalczyk: The Growing Consciousness of the Shoah through Film: For Better or Worse, p. 75 John J. Michalczyk: Night and Fog (1955): A Microcosm of the Genocide, p. 97 Jeffrey Gutierrez: A Note on Image and Sound in Memory of the Camps (1985), p. 103 James Bernauer, SJ: The Flawed Vision in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah (1985) and the Corrective Lens of Pierre Sauvage, p. 107 Melanie Murphy: The Architecture of Doom (1991): Blueprint for Annihilation, p. 115 Kevin P. Spicer, CSC: Amen. (2002), the Catholic Church, and the Holocaust, p. 121 Diana Elise Araujo: A Jewish Mother in the Ghetto in the Shadow of Genocide: Fred Wiseman’s The Last Letter (La Dernière Lettre, 2002), p. 132 Michael Resler: Saviors in the Night (2009): German Loyalty - to the Reich or to Humanity?, p. 137 John J. Michalczyk: The Complicity of the French in The Roundup (La rafle, 2010) and Sarah’s Key (2010), p. 145 PART FIVE: CAMBODIA: “THE KHMER ROUGE COME TO TOWN”… TO PURGE John J. Michalczyk: Cambodia: The Bones Cry Out!, p. 157 John J. Michalczyk: Epic Genocide: Roland Joffé’s Killing Fields (1984), p. 162 John J. Michalczyk: Who Are the «Enemies of the People»?, p. 168 PART SIX: ETHNIC CLEANSING: “PURIFYING” THE LAND Raymond G. Helmick, SJ: Ethnic Cleansing, p. 177 Charles David Tauber, MD: The Balkan Conflict and Its Psychological Ramifications, p. 182 Cynthia Simmons: Snow (Snijeg, 2008): So That a Trace Remains, p. 187 John J. Michalczyk: Srebrenica: Graves Cry Out, p. 193 Trevor Laurence Jockims: Sarajevo Ground Zero (1994): SaGA’s Films of Crimes and Resistance Produced Under Siege, 1992–1993, p. 198 Eve Spangler: No Exit: Palestinian Film in the Shadow of the Nakba, p.205 PART SEVEN: RWANDA: 100 DAYS ENGULFED John H. Stanfield, II: Rwanda: Where the Genocidal Devil Ran So Wild, p. 217 Zine Magubane: Saviors and Survivors: Western Passivity, African Resistance, and the Politics of Genocide in Hotel Rwanda (2004), p. 220 Sara L. Rubin: Specificity in Genocide Portrayal on Film: Sometimes in April (2005), p. 200 John J. Michalczyk: Village Justice: In the Tall Grass (2006), p. 233 Nada Mustafa Ali: Making Sense of Sudan’s Conflicts, p. 239 Ajak Mabior: No Heaven on Earth: Lost Boys of Sudan (2003), p. 246 John J. Michalczyk: Eyewitness to Genocide in Darfur: The Devil Came on Horseback (2007), p. 250 PART NINE: SUDAN: FAR FROM THE WESTERN EYE Willy Moka-Mubelo, SJ: Atrocities and Exploitation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, p. 257 David Northrup: A Reign of Terror in the Congo Free State: Congo: White King, Red Rubber, and Black Death (2004), p. 263 Contributors, p. 267 Selected Bibliography, p. 273 Index of Films, p. 279
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