Cinema’s Alchemist

Contents

Introduction
Bill Nichols

Part I. Setting the Scene
1. Péter Forgács: An Interview
Scott MacDonald
2. The Memory of Loss: Péter Forgács’s Saga of Family Life and Social Hell
Peter Forgács and Bill Nichols, in dialogue

Part II. The Holocaust Films
3. Towards a New Historiography: The Aesthetics of Temporality
Ernst van Alphen
4. Ordinary Film: The Maelstrom
Michael S. Roth
5. Historical Discourses of the Unimaginable: The Maelstrom
Michael Renov
6. Waiting, Hoping, among the Ruins of All the Rest
Kaja Silverman
7. The Trace: Framing the Presence of the Past in Free Fall
Malin Wahlberg

Part III. Other Films/Other Contexts
8. How to Make History Perceptible: The Bartos Family and the Private Hungary series
Roger Odin
9. Found Images as Witness to Central European History: A Bibó Reader and Miss Universe 1929
Catherine Portuges
10. Re-envisioning the Documentary Fact: On Saying and Showing in Wittgenstein Tractatus and Bourgeois Dictionaries
Tyrus Miller
11. The World Rewound: Wittgenstein Tractatus
Whitney Davis
12. Taking the Part for the Whole: Some Thoughts Inspired by the Film Music of Tibor Szemzö
Tamás Korányi
13. Analytical Spaces: The Installations of Péter Forgács
László F. Földényi
14. Reorchestrating History: Transforming The Danube Exodus into a Database Documentary
Marsha Kinder

Acknowledgments
Filmography
Contributors
Index