"Cazenave's work will be particularly helpful for not only the investigation of the outtakes vis-à-vis the final version of Shoah but also as an example of how to juxtapose film ('archive' and final cut), film criticism, and related literature." — Jewish Film & New Media"…[this] painstakingly researched, skillfully organized, and thoroughly absorbing study changes our understanding of Shoah and the paradigmatic ethics of representation that it invented." — French Studies"…[an] illuminating new volume…" — Los Angeles Review of Books"…a towering achievement…" — Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television"…a wonderful and complex study that will be of great interest to readers in Holocaust and cinema studies." — New Books Network"This book is a must-have for film buffs, and for those who think about how we shape the Holocaust." — Jewish Herald-Voice"Cazenave's immense work of scholarship and reflection offers an intimate and exacting account of the way Lanzmann's approach to the project shifted and changed over the years of its creation. Never before has there been a more insightful study of the evolution of his thinking. I believe that any scholar who has worked on this film will agree." — Stuart Liebman, editor of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah: Key Essays"This monumental book will profoundly change our understanding of Shoah and Lanzmann's highly influential shaping of the Holocaust narrative. Cazenave reveals that the significance of Shoah is not only found in what is in it, but, perhaps more importantly, what was omitted from it." — Aaron Kerner, author of Film and the Holocaust: New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films
