Book announcement: Through Amateur Eyes
Kenneth Nolley <[email protected]>
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MODERATOR'S NOTE: UM is offering a review copy if someone would like to review the volume for H-Film. Get in touch if you are interested. --k From: Alexandra Sobiech <[email protected]> _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ A history of rare archival amateur photographs and films from Nazi Germany THROUGH AMATEUR EYES: Film and Photography in Nazi Germany By Francis Guerin University of Minnesota Press | 368 pages | 2011 ISBN 978-0-8166-7007-9 | paperback | $27.95 ISBN 978-0-8166-7006-2 | cloth | $84.00 Frances Guerin asks how the documentary films and photographs of amateurs, soldiers, and bystanders shape our memories of World War II and the Holocaust. Guerin shows how modern uses of these images often reinforce well-rehearsed narratives of cultural memory, offering a critical perspective on how we can incorporate such images into processes of witnessing the traumas of the past in the present. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frances Guerin is lecturer of film studies at the University of Kent, England, and Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Media Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. She is the author of A Culture of Light: Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany (Minneapolis, 2005) and coeditor with Roger Hallas of The Image and the Witness: Trauma Memory and Visual Culture. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://upress.umn.edu/book-**division/books/through-**amateur-eyes<http://upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/through-amateur-eyes> -- Ken Nolley Professor of English and Film Studies Willamette University Salem, OR 97301 Phone: 503-370-6280 Fax: 503-370-6944