Concentrationary Cinema wins Kraszna-Krausz award

Analysis of Resnais' Night And Fog is Best Moving Image Book

by Jennie Kermode

Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics As Political Resistance In Alain Resnais's Night And Fog has won the annual Kraszna-Krausz award for Best Moving Image Book. The lengthy work by Max Silverman and Griselda Pollock provides a varied set of perspectives on what is considered by many to be Resnais' most important film, a powerful documentary about the Holocaust.

With contributions from experts in trauma therapy and Holocaust studies as well as film and art critics, the book adds depth to viewers' experience of the film by situating it in social as well as historical context. The judges also commended Charles R Acland and Haidee Wasson's Useful Cinema, Malcolm Turvey's The Filming Of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film Of The 1920s and Rosalind Galt's Pretty: Film And The Decorative Image.

Founded in 1985, the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards aim to celebrate excellence in books about photography and the moving image.

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