Night and fog: a film in history, Lindeperg Sylvie

Автор: Givhan Robin
Название: The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled Into the Spotlight and Made History
ISBN: 1250062322 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250062321
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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Описание: The world`s social elite gathered at the Palace of Versailles for an international fashion show. By the time the curtain came down , history had been made and the industry had been forever transformed. This is that story.

Автор: Corton Christine L.
Название: London Fog: The Biography
ISBN: 0674979818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674979819
Издательство: Wiley
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A Telegraph Editor's Choice
An Evening Standard "Best Books about London" Selection

In popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs, the thick yellow "pea-soupers," were born in the industrial age of the early nineteenth century. Christine L. Corton tells the story of these epic London fogs, their dangers and beauty, and their lasting effects on our culture and imagination.

"Engrossing and magnificently researched...Corton's book combines meticulous social history with a wealth of eccentric detail. Thus we learn that London's ubiquitous plane trees were chosen for their shiny, fog-resistant foliage. And since Jack the Ripper actually went out to stalk his victims on fog-free nights, filmmakers had to fake the sort of dank, smoke-wreathed London scenes audiences craved. It's discoveries like these that make reading London Fog such an unusual, enthralling and enlightening experience."
--Miranda Seymour, New York Times Book Review

"Corton, clad in an overcoat, with a linklighter before her, takes us into the gloomier, long 19th century, where she revels in its Gothic grasp. Beautifully illustrated, London Fog delves fascinatingly into that swirling miasma."
--Philip Hoare, New Statesman

Автор: Pilon, Eliade & Pilon
Название: Notes From The Other Side Of Night
ISBN: 1412852609 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412852609
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Notes from the Other Side of Nightis a diary-memoir written upon Juliana Geran Pilon`s return to her native Romania in 1975, which she had left along with her family when she was just fourteen

Автор: Lindeperg Sylvie
Название: Night and fog: a film in history
ISBN: 0816679924 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816679928
Издательство: NBN International
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Francois Truffaut called Night and Fog "the greatest film ever made." But when Alain Resnais finished his documentary, with its depiction of Nazi atrocities, the resistance of the French censors was fierce. A mere decade had passed since the end of the war, and the French public was unprepared to confront the horrors shown in the film--let alone the possibility of French complicity. In fact it would be through Night and Fog that many viewers first learned, as film critic Serge Daney put it, "that the worst had only just taken place."

An engrossing account of the genesis, production, and legacy of Resnais's incomparable film, this book documents in extraordinary detail how a film that began as a cinematic spin-off of an educational exhibition on "resistance, liberation, and deportation" went on to become a significant step in the building of a collective consciousness of the tragedy of World War II. Sylvie Lindeperg frames her investigation with the story of historian Olga Wormser-Migot, who played an integral role in the research and writing of Night and Fog--and whose slight error on one point gave purchase to the film's detractors and revisionists and Holocaust deniers. Lindeperg follows the travails of Resnais, Wormser-Migot, and their collaborators in a pan-European search for footage, photographs, and other documentation. She uncovers creative use of liberation footage to stand in for daily life of the camps featured to such shocking effect in the film--a finding that raises hotly debated questions about reenactment and witnessing even as it enhances our understanding of the film's provenance and impact.

A microhistory of a film that altered the culture it reflected, Night and Fog offers a unique interpretation of the interworking of biography, history, politics, and film in one epoch-making cultural moment.

Автор: Simon Godfrey
Название: British Army Communications in the Second World War: Lifting the Fog of Battle
ISBN: 1441190392 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441190390
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence form the backbone of the Army's operating system. But while much attention has been given in the literature to the other three elements, Communications in the British Army during World War II have been widely ignored. This book rectifies the omission. It shows that failures in front line communications contributed to several of the set backs suffered by the Army but also that ultimate victory was only achieved after a successful communications system was in place. It explains how the outcome of the main campaigns in Europe and North Africa depended on communications, how the system operated and how it evolved from a relatively primitive and inadequately supplied state at Dunkirk to a generally effective system at the time of the Rhine crossings. Problems still occurred however, for example at infantry platoon level and famously with paratrooper communications at Arnhem, often simply due to the shortcomings of existing technology. The book concludes that it is only very recently that advances in technology have allowed those problems to be solved.