Screening Auschwitz : Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration

Screening Auschwitz Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration

This book about the early screen representation of Auschwitz-Birkenau deals with the classic Holocaust film made in 1948 in Poland by Auschwitz survivor, director Wanda Jakubowska. The Last Stage (or The Last Stop) is a pioneering work - the first narrative film to portray the former Nazi German cam...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Haltof, Marek, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press 2018.
Series:Cultural expressions of World War II.
Subjects:
Jakubowska, Wanda, > 1907-1998 > Criticism and interpretation.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) > In motion pictures.
Ostatni etap (Motion picture)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423001306719
Table of Contents:
  • The Auschwitz-Birkenau number 43513
  • "Stalin was moved to tears" : the script
  • Return to Auschwitz : the making of the Holocaust classic
  • The film and its reception
  • Fighting Auschwitz : the heroic account of the camp
  • Representation of the Holocaust in the last stage
  • The legacy of Wanda Jakubowska.

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