Concentrationary Cinema explores the cinematic aesthetics of political resistance not to the Holocaust as such but to the political novelty of absolute power represented by the concentrationary system and its assault on the human condition.

Professor Max Silverman (School of Modern Languages and Cultures) discusses Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's "Night and Fog" (Berghahn Books, 2012), which he co-edited with Griselda Pollock. The book won the 2012 Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Award for Best Moving Image Book. In this interview, Max discusses issues including the importance of the idea of the "concentrationary", the way in which the film "Night and Fog" develops the idea, and the significance of the film in contemporary French culture and society.