Judge Dennis Davis and Professor David Peimer
Representations of the Holocaust in Film, Part 1
Summary
A nuanced examination of Holocaust representations in films after World War II, focusing on several impactful, well-crafted films like Shoah (1985) and Schindler’s List (1994) that conveyed Holocaust memory through film.
Judge Dennis Davis
Dennis Davis is a judge of the High Court of South Africa and judge president of the Competition Appeals Court of South Africa. He has held professorial appointments at the University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand, as well as numerous visiting appointments at Cambridge, Harvard, New York University, and others. He has authored eleven books, including Lawfare: Judging Politics in South Africa.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a Professor of Literature, Film and Theatre in the UK. He has worked for the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, New York University (Global Division) and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing in New York, UK, Berlin, EU Parliament (Brussels), Athens, Budapest, Zululand and more. He has most recently directed Dame Janet Suzman in his own play, Joanna’s Story, at London Jewish Book Week. He has published widely with books including: Armed Response: Plays from South Africa, the digital book, Theatre in the Camps. He is on the board of the Pinter Centre (London), and has been involved with the Mandela Foundation, Vaclav Havel Foundation and directed a range of plays at Mr Havel’s Prague theatre.
It’s a debate, but there is artifice in everything. There is no purity in storytelling. There is always choice, there’s always character.
That’s a very important question. Wajda and others have brilliant films, but from our point of view, we’re trying to show the dominant films in the English speaking world.