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Representing the Holocaust: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
- Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies
- Center for the Study of Film and History
- Volume 17, Number 1, February 1987
- pp. 2-8
- 10.1353/flm.1987.a402285
- Article
- Additional Information
Disavowing archival footage and rejecting a standard time frame, Claude Lanzmann's documentary on the extermination of European Jewry relies on interviews with Holocaust victims and victimizers to evoke the character of the bureaucratic mode of mass death.