Sylvie Lindeperg

Sylvie Lindeperg

Birth : 1965-04-08, Oullins, France

History

Sylvie Lindeperg is a historian, a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and a professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on the connections between cinema, memory and history, with a particular inclination toward the Second World War and the International Justice. She draws her inspiration at the junctures of history and art history, in the works of Carlo Ginzburg, Michael Baxandall and Daniel Arasse, thereby contributing to the revival of a field pioneered in France by Marc Ferro, Michele Lagny and Pierre Sorlin.

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Sylvie Lindeperg

Movies

Filmmakers for the Prosecution
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
Self - Historian
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors committed by the infamous Third Reich in order to prove Nazi war crimes during the Nuremberg trials (1945-46). The story of the making of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, a paramount historic documentary, released in 1948.
Ils ne savaient pas ? Les Français et la Shoah sous l'occupation
Ils ne savaient pas ? Les Français et la Shoah sous l'occupation
Self - Historian
Face aux fantômes
Face aux fantômes
Herself
French film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night and Fog", and attempts to place it in the context of the historical treatment of WWII, and specifically of the Holocaust, in the decade following those harrowing events. Oddly, she argues that the images of Resnais's famous film are "powerless", in her words.