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Souvenirs de Chantal

Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 75–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7264114
Published: 01 May 2019
...-generation Holocaust survivor memory feminist film ...
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“A More Personal Look at Her Life”: Family Narrative, Gender, and Transnational Memories in The Girl and the Picture

Pingfan Zhang
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 91–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9787028
Published: 01 September 2022
... that the memory politics of the Holocaust entered into a new phase with the second generation of survivors. She referred to them as the “hinge generation,” through which the “received, transferred knowledge of events is transmuted into history, or into myth. It is also the generation in which we can think about...
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Daughter of Saul, or Saul Leanya : The Gendered Place of Atrocity in László Nemes's Son of Saul

Szidonia Haragos
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 99–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9052816
Published: 01 September 2021
... that gender not only determined women's responses to persecution and genocide but also shaped the way women survivors expressed those experiences. Women's Holocaust life writing and witness memoirs were shaped by gendered “politics of memory and transmission,” allowing for different ways in which women...
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Gendered Genocide: New Cambodian Cinema and the Case of Forced Marriage and Rape

Raya Morag
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 77–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8085123
Published: 01 May 2020
.... Taking Holocaust cinema as paradigmatic, to the best of my knowledge, during the seventy- five years that have passed since the end of World War II, no post- Holocaust film has represented such a confrontation.13 The few films that come close to this achievement are second- generation mother- daughter...
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Perpetrator Trauma and Current Israeli Documentary Cinema

Raya Morag
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 93–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1597222
Published: 01 September 2012
... of repression and projection. In fact, Folman’s is a unique case of post memory because his position as a second-generation Holocaust survivor involves more than one loss event and one agency. Hirsch explores the sec- ond generation’s identi cation with the parent- victim but not an identi cation...
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Memory Once Removed: Indirect Memory and Transitive Autobiography in Chantal Akerman's D'Est

Alisa Lebow
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 35–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-18-1_52-35
Published: 01 May 2003
... to convey its temporal and qualitative difference from survivor memory, its secondary or second-generation memory quality, its basis in displacement, its belatedness. Postmemory is a powerful form of memory precisely because its connection to its object or source is mediated not through recollection...
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Sense and Subjectivity

Fiona I. B. Ngô
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (1 (76)): 95–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-016
Published: 01 May 2011
... and traumatic war situations. Scholars thinking about the Holocaust, for example, often produce the genocide as an instructive, if aberrational, event in human history.4 As Giorgio Agamben writes, “The aporia of Auschwitz is, indeed, the very apo- ria of historical knowledge: a non-­coincidence between...
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Recycled Wounds: Trauma, Gender, and Ethnicity in Keren Yedaya's Or, My Treasure

Raz Yosef
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 41–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2009-009
Published: 01 December 2009
... (Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). 20. Marianne Hirsch and  Janet Walker, for example, define distinct types of remembrance. Hirsch uses the term postmemory to discuss identification-related traumatic memory among second-generation Holocaust survivors. Walker coins...
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Male Weeping as Performative: The Crying Mossad Assassin in Walk on Water

Boaz Hagin
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 103–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2008-004
Published: 01 September 2008
... presents national problems. Like Made in Israel (dir. Ari Folman, Israel, 2001), it tells of an attempt to assassinate a Nazi criminal; like Metallic Blues (dir. Dan Verete, Canada/Germany/Israel, 2004), it deals with a second-generation Israeli Holocaust survivor visiting Germany...
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From Elif to Esty? Unorthodox and Turkish German Cinema's Captivity Narrative

Olivia Landry
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 119–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9787042
Published: 01 September 2022
..., Memory, Metaphor: Remembering and the Connective Turn,” Parallax 17, no. 4 (2011): 21. 10. Marianne Hirsch, The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture after the Holocaust (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012), 21–22. One might also note here the growing commitment among...
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Breeding Unity: Battlestar Galactica 's Biracial Reproductive Futurity

Anne Kustritz
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 1–37.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1727446
Published: 01 December 2012
... a project of collective forgetting and deliberate unknowing of a patchwork of related historical disas- ters presaging, adjacent to, and following the eugenics movement: forgetting the ideological underpinnings of the Holocaust; forget- ting the mass sterilization of women deemed promiscuous, men...
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Rape and War, Gender and Nation, Victims and Victimizers: Helke Sander's BeFreier und Befreite

Richard W. McCormick
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (1 (46)): 99–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-16-1_46-99
Published: 01 May 2001
... to revisionist ideas about German history and the Holocaust that right-wing West German historians had expounded during the famous Historikerstreit (historians’ debate) of the 1980s. I witnessed the controversy over the film in one of its early...
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Reimagining the Gargoyle: Psychoanalytic Notes on Alien

Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D.
Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 86–109.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-5-3_15-86
Published: 01 December 1986
... watershed of national self-doubt and paranoia. In the setting of spreading global communism, fading postwar prosperity, and the renewed threat of nuclear holocaust, Hollywood disgorged an army of implacable invaders feasting upon flesh and blood, like the brainy carrotman of The Thing...
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The “Newer Angels” and the Living Dead: The Ethics of Screening Obsessional Desire

Molly Anne Rothenberg
Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 15–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-14-1-2_40-41-15
Published: 01 May 1997
...: partially birthed fetuses, near-death experiencers, MIAs from the Vietnam War, immigrants, Holocaust survivors, youth gangs, transsexuals, junkies, Kevorkianists, those suffering from multiple personality disorder, and PWAs (persons with AIDS)-all these have been represented as pos- sessed...
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