The Construction of Testimony

Groundbreaking analyses of the vast archive of newly digitized and released outtakes from Lanzmann’s masterwork. In The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Its Outtakes , editors Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselsberger gather contributions on how Shoah (1985) fundamentally changed the nature and use of filmed testimony and laid the groundwork for how historians and documentarians regard and understand the history of the Holocaust. Critics have taken long note of