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Memories of Resistance and the Holocaust on Film

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Authors:
  1. Mercedes Camino

    1. Department of History, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

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  • Elaborates a cultural history of the Holocaust and resistance in WWII
  • Offers an original treatment of films as historical sources (both primary and secondary)
  • Investigates WWII as a civil war through real and imagined roles of civilians in resistance and the Holocaust
  • Establishes chronotopes in Memorialization of Resistance in WWII and the Holocaust

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Mercedes Camino
    Pages 1-28

  3. The Civilian Resister (1942–69)

    • Mercedes Camino
    Pages 29-73

  4. The Partisan (1943–74)

    • Mercedes Camino
    Pages 75-110

  5. The Collaborator (1969–74)

    • Mercedes Camino
    Pages 111-133

  6. Holocaust Testimony: Survivors, Ghosts and Revenants (1947–2002)

    • Mercedes Camino
    Pages 135-167

  7. Righteous Gentiles (1987–2011)

    • Mercedes Camino
    Pages 169-196

  8. The Jewish Resister (1987–2015)

    • Mercedes Camino
    Pages 197-227

  9. Conclusion: Chronotopes and Grey Zones

    • Mercedes Camino
    Pages 229-242

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 243-267
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About this book

This book investigates cinematic representations of the murder of European Jews and civilian opposition to Nazi occupation from the war up until the twenty-first century. The study exposes a chronology of the conflict’s memorialization whose geo-political alignments are demarcated by vectors of time and space—or ‘chronotopes’, using Mikhail Bakhtin’s term. Camino shows such chronotopes to be first defined by the main allies; the USA, USSR and UK; and then subsequently expanding from the geographical and political centres of the occupation; France, the USSR and Poland. Films from Western and Eastern Europe and the USA are treated as primary and secondary sources of the conflict. These sources contribute to a sentient or emotional history that privileges affect and construct what Michel Foucault labels biopolitics. These cinematic narratives, which are often based on memoirs of resistance fighters like Joseph Kessel or Holocaust survivors such as Primo Levi and Wanda Jakubowska, evoke the past in what Marianne Hirsch has described as ‘post-memory’.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

    Mercedes Camino

About the author

Mercedes Camino is Professor of History at Lancaster University, UK. She has published five monographs, one edited book and more than fifty articles on the topics of colonialism and 20th century conflicts. 

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