Afterimage: Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust
Hirsch, Joshua Francis![Afterimage: Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/174/1745979/CHSBZCOP031745979.jpg)
The appearance of Alain Resnais' 1955 French documentary "Night and Fog heralded the beginning of a new form of cinema, one that used the narrative techniques of modernism to provoke a new historical consciousness. "Afterimage presents a theory of posttraumatic film based on the encounter between cinema and the Holocaust. Locating its origin in the vivid shock of wartime footage, "Afterimage focuses on a group of crucial documentary and fictio...