Aaron Kerner: 2 books
Film and the Holocaust
New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis. This anxiety is, at least in part, rooted in Theodor Adorno's dictum that "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric."...
Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11
Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Saw, Hostel, The Devil’s Rejects: this wave of horror movies has been classed under the disparaging label “torture porn.” Since David Edelstein coined the term for a New York magazine article a few years after 9/11, many critics have speculated that these movies simply reflect iconic images,...