Screening Auschwitz : Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration /

Screening Auschwitz examines the classic Polish Holocaust film The Last Stage (Ostatni etap), directed by the Auschwitz survivor Wanda Jakubowska (1907-1998). Released in 1948, The Last Stage was a pioneering work and the first narrative film to portray the Nazi German camp. Haltof's fascinatin...

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Main Author: Haltof, Marek (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Auschwitz-Birkenau number 43513
  • "Stalin was moved to tears" : the script
  • Return to Auschwitz : the making of the Holocaust classic
  • The film and its reception
  • Fighting Auschwitz : the heroic account of the camp
  • Representation of the Holocaust in the last stage
  • The legacy of Wanda Jakubowska.