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Podcast: New Books in Library Science
Episode: Simone Gigliotti, "Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Description: The global refugee, the ship passenger, the displaced person. How did their homeseeking routes and visual motifs intersect and diverge in the early Holocaust film archive? SimoneĀ Gigliotti'sĀ Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the DisplacedĀ tracks the footsteps and routes of predominantly Jewish refugees and postwar displaced persons in what I call a ārestless archiveā of photographic, cinematographic and visual material that was created and re-used between 1933 and 1949. The historical and spatial analysis concentrates on tracing the emergence and remediation (migration) of images of displacement and transit and the forgotten-ness of others. The visual inventory is anchore...