The holocaust and interlocution between continuous and discontinuous history/time : cinematic responsibility after 9/11.

• Main Author: Goh, Wee Kiat.
• Other Authors: Brian Keith Bergen-Aurand
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English; DRNTU::Humanities::Ethics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51141
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Between 2008 and 2011 there is a resurgence of films about the historical massacre of European Jewry, the Holocaust. Interestingly, documentaries like Defamation (2009) do not depend on historical footage of German concentration camps. Features like Inglourious Basterds (2009) also avoid an “active-...