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Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not about the Holocaust as we know it today but a political and aesthetic response to what David Rousset, the French political prisoner from Buchenwald, identified on his return in 1945 as the 'concentrationary universe' which, now actualized, might release its totalitarian plague any time and anywhere? Wh

Resnais, Alain --- Memory in motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- World War, 1939-1945 --- 791.471 RESNAIS --- film --- filmgeschiedenis --- filmtheorie --- Frankrijk --- holocaust --- Resnais Alain --- twintigste eeuw --- wereldoorlog II --- World War, 1939-1945, in motion pictures --- Aesthetics --- Motion pictures and the war --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures. --- Resnais, Alain, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Nuit et brouillard (Motion picture) --- Nacht und Nebel (Motion picture) --- Night and fog (Motion picture) --- Nacht en nevel (Motion picture) --- Memory in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures and the war. --- Aesthetics.