Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book illustrates that the impact of the global film event continues to resonate in audiovisual Holocaust memory at the new millennium. It explores how the visual culture of the Holocaust at the turn of the millennium seemed persistently to inhabit border sites and transitional forms, between different geographies, histories, genres and more. The book investigates how contemporary media technologies have impacted on the ways in which Holocaust testimonies are collected, disseminated and received. It traces the process of institutionalization that has simultaneously affirmed the Holocaust as a locus of uniqueness and positioned the event as a source of readily recognizable images that can be drawn on in treatments of disparate subjects. The book presents a transmedial perspective on engagements with the Holocaust in recent Polish film and art. It reconsiders the relationship between television, history and memory.