LL201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hanns Eisler, Alain Resnais, Hiroshima Mon Amour
9 Feb 2018
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Noun: a film or television or radio programme that provides a factual report on a particular subject. 1930s: moves to new york, then to los angeles. 1948: interrogated by the house committee on un-american activities and blacklisted from hollywood: (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t (cid:449)ork i(cid:374) holl(cid:455)(cid:449)ood. Joins the french resistance in 1941: by the end of the war, everyone was part of the resistance. Interned in gusen concentration camp in 1943: he was captured and kept there. Leitmotif in his work: the figure of lazarus: lazarus had died for 3 days, jesus called for lazarus from the grave, he came back to life. It"s si(cid:373)ilar to his situatio(cid:374) (cid:449)here he (cid:449)as se(cid:374)t to the (cid:272)a(cid:373)p to die (cid:271)ut somehow came out alive to talk about his story. Director of hiroshima mon amour: a fiction film, a french woman and japanese man meet in hiroshima after the bombing in. Describes the way people arrived to the concentration camps; they would arrive by train.
