After the Fact

Brad Prager is Associate Professor of German and a member of the Program in Film Studies at the University of Missouri. He is the author of The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (2007) and Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (2007). He is also the coeditor of a volume on Visual Studies and the Holocaust entitled Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory (2008), as well as of a recent volume on contemporary German cinema, and is the editor of a Companion to Werner Herzog (2012).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Holocaust Documentary: In StagesTouring Sites: Revisiting the Concentration Camps in KZ and Martin Mediated Memories: The Influence of Spielberg’s Hollywood Hit on Inheritance and Spielberg’s ListForgiveness on Film: Resentment and Reconciliation in Forgiving Dr. Mengele and Landscapes of Memory: The Life of Ruth Klüger Family Issues: Oedipal Confrontations in 2 or 3 Things I Know about Him and The FlatRe-Screening Perpetrator Images: Witnessing the Past in A Film Unfinished and Photographer Conclusion Selected FilmographyWorks CitedIndex

Published on the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War ... After the Fact is a timely and valuable contribution to discussions about the power of cinema ... Fascinating.