Book by Jennifer Cazenave
An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah, 2019
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Essays by Jennifer Cazenave
Los Angeles Review of Books, 2019
My tribute to Agnès Varda on the years she spent in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Review of Books, 2018
My obituary-essay on Claude Lanzmann and the making of Shoah.
Papers by Jennifer Cazenave
The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul (eds. Leslie Barned and Joseph Mai), 2021
Cinema Journal, 2018
This article investigates the archival status of the earth as a medium and metaphor for the writi... more This article investigates the archival status of the earth as a medium and metaphor for the writing of the Cambodian disaster as depicted in Rithy Panh’s autobiographical account of the Khmer Rouge regime, The Missing Picture (2013). Drawing on transnational film theory and the geological turn in media studies, it confronts Western and non-Western conceptions of trauma to ultimately demonstrate how the film’s handcarved clay figurines embody both the materiality of mourning in Cambodia and the environmental implications of Pol Pot’s failed agrarian utopia.
has re-sparked an ongoing debate regarding the Holocaust and the limits of representation. A fict... more has re-sparked an ongoing debate regarding the Holocaust and the limits of representation. A fictional memoir written from the point of view of a German perpetrator, The Kindly Ones recounts a quasi-odyssey through Europe during the Second World War, thereby vividly exposing the atrocities committed in Eastern Poland and the Ukraine. The object of significant praise, including two prestigious French literary prizes, The Kindly Ones has nonetheless met the objection of many who have reduced Littell's representation of the Holocaust to a pornography of violence. Wishing to counter this particular reading of The Kindly Ones, this article examines the signification of a representation of the human body as an image forever tainted by the atrocities.
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Book by Jennifer Cazenave
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