Winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Prize as the best book on the MOVING IMAGE 2011

Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog (London and New York: Berghahn) edited by Griselda Pollock (Art History and Cultural Analysis) and Max Silverman (French Literature and Cultural Studies) has been awarded the prestigious Kraszna-Krausz Prize for the Best Book on the Moving Image 2011. (http://www.kraszna-krausz.org.uk/).  The announcement took place on 26 April in London at the award ceremony for the SONY World Photography awards. The book and a number of its images are on display as part of the World Photography Festival at Somerset House ().

Since 2007 Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman have co-directed a research project on Concentrationary Memories: The Politics of Representation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.  Two doctoral theses have been completed by Benjamin Hannavy Cousen (2011) and Matthew John (2012).  Three more volumes are in preparation: Concentrationary Memories, Concentrationary Imaginaries, Concentrationary Art.