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Through a Lens Darkly - Films of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing (Paperback, New edition)
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Through a Lens Darkly - Films of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing (Paperback, New edition)
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While the ashes of the Holocaust were still fresh, Polish Jewish
attorney Raphael Lemkin put a name to the tragedy that had
decimated his family - genocide. The twentieth century was brutally
scarred by the massive scale of genocide and its manifest forms of
ethnic cleansing, massacres, and atrocities. We ask how these
horrors can be visually translated to the screen while both
maintaining their authenticity and serving as commercial
"entertainment". Through an analysis of a series of poignant films
on the plight of the Native Americans, the controversial Armenian
genocide, the Holocaust and its legacy, the killing fields of
Cambodia, and the Hutu-sponsored massacres in Rwanda, the reader
can grasp the driving mechanisms of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
The oft-repeated, "Never again" rings hollow to our ears in the
wake of these tragedies in a post-Holocaust era. The films
discussed here, both features and documentaries, are set in an
historical context that sheds light on the dark side of humanity
and are then discussed with the hope of better understanding our
frailty. In the end, however, we ask can the "unrepresentable" ever
be represented?
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