{"product_id":"archive-of-the-catastrophe","title":"Archive of the Catastrophe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eComprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, 2020 Best First Book Award presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaude Lanzmann's 1985 magnum opus, \u003ci\u003eShoah\u003c\/i\u003e, is a canonical documentary on the Holocaust-and in film history. Over the course of twelve years, Lanzmann gathered 230 hours of location filming and interviews with survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators, which he condensed into a 9½-hour film. The unused footage was scattered and inaccessible for years before it was restored and digitized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In \u003ci\u003eAn Archive of the Catastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e, Jennifer Cazenave presents the first comprehensive study of this collection. She argues that the outtakes pose a major challenge to the representational and theoretical paradigms produced by the documentary, while offering new meanings of \u003ci\u003eShoah\u003c\/i\u003e and of Holocaust testimony writ large. They lend fresh insight into issues raised by the film, including questions of resistance, rescue, refugees, and, above all, gender-Lanzmann's twenty hours of interviews with women make up a mere ten minutes of the finished documentary. As a rare instance of outtakes preserved during the predigital era of cinema, this unused footage challenges us to establish a new critical framework for understanding how documentaries are constructed and reshapes the way we view this key Holocaust film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo view the book trailer on YouTube, please go to: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bBjUWyAn55g\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410336567640,"sku":"9781438474779","price":90.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781438474779_14ab4a8f-03a1-4ab0-9feb-79b265e15483.jpg?v=1777896931","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/archive-of-the-catastrophe","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}