Through a Lens Darkly: Films of Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Atrocities

Part One: Trail of Tears: Cleansing the Land of the Indian "Problem." "Make his paths straight": removing the Indian obstacle to US expansion / Jordan Jennings Stagecoach (1939) and the image of "Indians" in John Ford's films / Marilyn J. Matelski Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (2007): the epic fall of the American Indian / Nancy Lynch Street Part Two: Armenian Genocide: "Who Remembers." The Armenian Genocide: history and Turkish government denial / Dikran M. Kaligian Atom Egoyan's Ararat (2002) and the critique of diplomatic reason / Devin O. Pendas Everyone's not here (1987): families of the Armenian Genocide / Paul Bookbinder Part Three. Nanking: Evil Unleashed. The rape of Nanking from a Chinese perspective / You Guo (Joseph) Jiang, SJ City of life and death (Nanjing! Nanjing! 2009) and the silenced Nanjing native / Rebecca Nedostup Nanking (2007): "A question of righteousness" / Jeremy Clarke, SJ Part Four: Holocaust/Shoah: A Moral Tragedy and Where Was Man?. The growing consciousness of the Shoah through film: for better or worse / John J. Michalczyk Night and fog (1955): a microcosm of the genocide / John J. Michalczyk A note on image and sound in Memory of the camps (1985) / Jeffrey Gutierrez The flawed vision in Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (1985) and the corrective lens of Pierre Sauvage / James Bernauer, SJ The architecture of doom (1991): blueprint for annihilation / Melanie Murphy Amen. (2002), the Catholic Church, and the Holocaust / Kevin P. Spicer, CSC A Jewish mother in the Ghetto in the shadow of genocide: Fred Wiseman's The last letter (La dernière lettre, 2002) / Diana Elise Araujo Saviours in the night (2009): German loyalty - to the Reich or to humanity? / Michael Resler The complicity of the French in The roundup (La rafle, 2010) and Sarah's key (2010) / John J. Michalczyk

Part Five: Cambodia: "The Khmer Rouge Come to Town" ... to Purge. Cambodia: the bones cry out! / John J. Michalczyk

Epic genocide: Roland Joffé's Killing fields (1984) / John J. Michalczyk

Who are the "enemies of the people"? / John J. Michalczyk

Part Six: Ethnic Cleansing: "Purifying" the Land. Ethnic cleansing / Raymond G. Helmick, SJ

The Balkan conflict and its psychological ramifications / Charles David Tauber, MD

Snow (Snijeg, 2008): so that a trace remains / Cynthia Simmons

Srebrenica: graves cry out / John J. Michalczyk

Sarajevo ground zero (1994): SaGA's films of crimes and resistance produced under siege, 1992-1993 / Trevor Laurence Jockims

No exit: Palestinian film in the shadow of the Nakba / Eve Spangler

Part Seven: Rwanda: 100 Days Engulfed in "Unimaginable Terror." Rwanda: where the genocidal devil ran so wild / John H. Stanfield, II

Saviors and survivors: western passivity, African resistance, and the politics of genocide in Hotel Rwanda (2004) / Zine Magubane

Specificity in genocide portrayal on film: Sometimes in April (2005) / Sara L. Rubin

Village justice: In the tall grass (2006) / John J. Michalczyk

Part Eight: Sudan: Far from the Western Eye. Making sense of Sudan's conflicts / Nada Mustafa Ali

No heaven on earth: Lost boys of Sudan (2003) / Ajak Mabior

Eyewitness to genocide in Darfur: The devil came on horseback (2007) / John J. Michalczyk

Part Nine: Congo: In a Jungle of Man's Inhumanity. Atrocities and exploitation in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Willy Moka-Mubelo, SJ

A reign of terror in the Congo Free State: White king, red rubber, and black death (2004) / David Northrup.