Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Bill Nichols -- Setting the Scene. P�eter Forg�acs: an interview / Scott MacDonald -- The memory of loss: P�eter Forg�acs' Saga of family life and social hell / P�eter Forgacs and Bill Nichols, in dialogue -- The Holocaust Films. Toward a new historiography: the aesthetics of temporality / Ernst van Alphen -- Ordinary film: The maelstrom / Michael S. Roth -- Historical discourses of the unimaginable: The maelstrom / Michael Renov -- Waiting, hoping, among the Ruins of All the Rest / Kaja Silverman -- The trace: framing the presence of the past in Free fall / Malin Wahlberg -- Other films/other contexts. How to make history perceptible: The Bartos family and the private Hungary series / Roger Odin -- Found images as witness to Central European history: a Bib� reader and Miss Universe 1929 / Catherine Portuges -- Reenvisioning the documentary fact: on saying and showing in Wittgenstein Tractatus and bourgeois dictionaries / Tyrus Miller -- The world rewound: Wittgenstein Tractatus / Whitney Davis -- Taking the part for the whole: some thoughts inspired by the film music of Tibor Szemz� / Tam�s Kor�nyi -- Analytical spaces: the installations of P�eter Forg�acs / Laszlo F. F�ld�nyi -- Reorchestrating history: transforming The Danube exodus into a database documentary / Marsha Kinder.

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