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 theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and 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. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.
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.