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Dutch documentary film as a site of memory

Author(s) -

Sonja de Leeuw

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

european journal of cultural studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.835

H-Index - 44

eISSN - 1460-3551

pISSN - 1367-5494

DOI - 10.1177/1367549407072971

Subject(s) - documentary film , representation (politics) , relation (database) , event (particle physics) , focus (optics) , documentary evidence , collective memory , history , the holocaust , sociology , cultural memory , media studies , aesthetics , visual arts , politics , political science , art , computer science , law , anthropology , archaeology , physics , optics , quantum mechanics , database

This article discusses how documentary film as site of memory has constructed the memory of the Second World War. Its focus is on Dutch documentary films produced by the end of the 1980s and in the 1990s and their relation to both the discourses of memory and of documentary representation. The construction of memory is closely related to the debate on historical representation, centred around the Shoah as an event of extreme importance. This article addresses these debates as well as the interventions made by filmmakers. With the help of several examples from Dutch documentary practice, its aim is to illustrate how representational modes in documentary film are related to the construction of memory

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