An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah

by Jennifer Cazenave

Honorable Mention, 2020 Best First Book Award presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Claude Lanzmann's 1985 magnum opus, Shoah, 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 91/2-hour film. The unused footage was scattered and inaccessible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438474768
• ISBN13: 9781438474762
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"