Staging Nuremberg

Sylvie Lindeperg is professor of history at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne. She is the author of prizewinning books in French and the codirector or cowriter of documentary films. Her books in English translation include “Night and Fog”: A Film in History (2014).Claudia Gorbman is professor emerita of film studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and has translated several books by Michel Chion.

• Note to ReadersPrologue: The Theater of JusticeAct I. Behind the Scenes: Conceiving the Ideal Trial1. The Nuremberg Chessboard2. Hollywood Goes to War3. From MoMA to the Salt Mines: The Hunt for Images4. The Editing Room: Or, the Inventory of the Possible5. Gordon Dean’s Storytelling6. The Drama’s Architecture7. Cameras in the Courtroom8. Soviet Cinema, Auxiliary to the Courts9. The Fall of the House of Donovan10. The Final Run-ThroughAct II. On Stage: The Trial11. The Curtain Rises on an American Week12. “The Flesh of the Courts”13. Phantoms of Propaganda14. Nuremberg, “Citadel of Boredom”15. The Curtain Falls16. German Autumn: Ending Without Images17. Voices Ever More DissonantEpilogue: The Profane and the SacredConclusion: Justice on Stage: “The Two-Sided Mirror”AcknowledgmentsAppendix 1: Nuremberg in Television and FilmAppendix 2: SupplementsNotesSourcesIndex

Lindeperg’s magisterial history of the International Military Tribunal demonstrates how justice and cinema emerge from the push and pull of documentary proof and dramatic stagecraft. Gripping, deftly constructed, and meticulously researched, Staging Nuremberg provides a much-needed analysis of the complex ways moving images give form to evidence.