{"product_id":"shoah-9781839029882","title":"Shoah","description":"\u003cp\u003eSue Vice's study explores Claude Lanzmann's epic 1985 film \u003ci\u003eShoah\u003c\/i\u003e both as cinema and as an example of Holocaust representation. \u003ci\u003eShoah, \u003c\/i\u003ethe distillation of more than 350 hours of footage gathered over eleven years, tells the story of the Holocaust through interviews with survivors of the extermination camps, bystanders who watched or participated in mass murder, and some of the perpetrators of genocide. Eschewing staple documentary elements of archival footage or narrating voiceover, the film is composed entirely of eyewitness interviews contrasted with footage of landscape in the present, and the chilling imagery of travelling trains. \u003ci\u003eShoah\u003c\/i\u003e's effect is to represent the past, but only as it exists in the present - in Lanzmann's words, a \"fiction of the real\", and not a simple documentary. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a series of close readings of some of the film's interviews, Sue Vice follows Lanzmann's declaration that \"\u003ci\u003eShoah\u003c\/i\u003e is a fight against generalities\", in emphasising the importance of detail in both dialogue and filmic technique. Through these analyses, Vice explores the background to the film, the difficulties in its financing and production, and the long process of editing that led to Lanzmann's realisation that \"the subject of my film is death itself; death and not survival.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her afterword to this new edition, Sue Vice considers developments such as the online availability of the complete '\u003ci\u003eShoah\u003c\/i\u003e Collection', Lanzmann's archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and \u003ci\u003eShoah\u003c\/i\u003e's continuing influence on films that witness genocides and the Holocaust, including Joshua Oppenheimer's \u003ci\u003eThe Look of Silence\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), and Jonathan Glazer's \u003ci\u003eThe Zone of Interest\u003c\/i\u003e (2023).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sue Vice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e British Film Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e BFI Film Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.45h x 5.38w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839029882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2nd Edition\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"British Film Institute","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45398282174601,"sku":"9781839029882","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_6f180a17-3b1c-4924-bffc-3885c11107a6.jpg?v=1773728712","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/shoah-9781839029882","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}