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From: "Terri Ginsberg" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 9:39 PM
Subject: NEW BOOK: Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology
> [please forward widely]
>
> Dear Colleagues:
>
> I am pleased to announce the publication of my monograph, HOLOCAUST FILM:
> THE POLITICAL AESTHETICS OF IDEOLOGY, a link to which is copied below. I
> do
> hope you will order a copy and encourage your institution and/or local
> library to do the same. I look forward to your comments and critique.
>
> http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Holocaust-Film--The-Political-Aesthetics-of-Ideo
> logy.htm
>
> Kind regards,
> Terri Ginsberg
>
> Advance praise for HOLOCAUST FILM:
>
> "What Norman Finkelstein has done in exposing the political foregrounding
> of
> the Holocaust Industry, what Giorgio Agamben has done in extrapolating the
> contemporary implications of 'homo sacer' from the horrors of the
> concentration camps, Terri Ginsberg is doing with astonishing command and
> competence about Holocaust cinema. Ginsberg's voice is clear, concise,
> liberating, and the harbinger of an entire new generation of scholarship
> in
> cinema studies. Groundbreaking, challenging, judicious, theoretically
> ambitious, and analytically lucid, HOLOCAUST FILM: THE POLITICAL
> AESTHETICS
> OF IDEOLOGY begins from the ground zero of the unspeakable and works its
> way
> meticulously up towards the long shot of a take that will remain
> definitive
> to generations of scholarship it anticipates. --Hamid Dabashi,
> Columbia University;
> Editor, DREAMS OF A NATION: ON PALESTINIAN
> CINEMA
>
> "Terri Ginsberg's HOLOCAUST FILM: THE POLITICAL AESTHETICS OF IDEOLOGY is
> a
> much needed intervention in the field of Holocaust Studies in general and
> in
> Holocaust Cinema Studies in particular. What Ginsberg has fashioned is a
> reading of the Holocaust that is both immanent and materialist and much
> needed in these times when Holocaust scholarship is being shanghaighed by
> both ends of the political spectrum. It is Ginsberg's achievement that
> Holocaust cinematic texts are here restored to their historical moment in
> a
> way that must be accomplished if there is ever to be an understanding of
> how
> these texts might grasp the original moment of the tragedy. Her
> painstakingly thorough scholarship and theoretical rigor ensures that her
> work at least will not serve to promote the type of easy, knee-jerk
> response
> that simply adds flame to the fire and in the name of scholarship
> contributes to the perpetuation of other tragedies in the present
> Israeli-Palestinian situation."
> --Dennis Broe, Graduate Program
> Coordinator,
> Media Arts Department, Long Island
> University
>
> "Ginsberg ably demonstrates how the subgenre known as 'Holocaust cinema'
> has
> been co-opted by the culture industry. Bypassing the usual Hollywood
> touchstones, she focuses on four relatively neglected films that
> illuminate
> several key motifs that permeate many films on the subject: the
> "Christianization" of Jewish oppression, the commodification of genocide
> by
> both commercial and art house cinema, and the ethnocentric appropriation
> of
> the Holocaust by filmmakers with reactionary agendas. Eschewing the
> conformist platitudes of previous studies, Ginsberg's book is a salutary
> and
> necessary provocation." --Richard Porton,
> co-editor, CINEASTE;
> Author, FILM AND THE ANARCHIST
> IMAGINATION
>
> "Hollywood has produced more than 175 films on the Holocaust since the
> 1980s, and in fact by now the category is considered by some to constitute
> a
> virtual genre. Ginsberg challenges the under-examined status of these
> films
> and analyzes the work they perform to construct a revisionist discourse.
> Ginsberg's astute understanding of cinematic strategies in addition to her
> confidence in distilling and unpacking even the most fraught of
> ideological
> discourses promise a groundbreaking and eminently useful study. Hers are
> important contributions which we very much need." --B. Ruby Rich,
> University of California-Santa Cruz;
> Author, CHICK FLICKS: THEORIES AND MEMORIES OF THE FEMINIST
> MOVEMENT
>
> "The importance of the Holocaust is beyond doubt. The importance of
> continuing the analysis and wide-ranging discussion of it is, at least in
> some circles. Here, in response, is an extremely scholarly and insightful
> treatment of Holocaust films and the aesthetic ideology that informs them.
> Sheds much light on several controversial problems connected to these
> horrific events.
> Highly Recommended. --Bertell Ollman, New York University;
> Author, DANCE OF THE
> DIALECTIC
>
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