Revising Dreyfus
Author | : Maya Balakirsky Katz |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2013-07-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789004256958 |
ISBN-13 | : 9004256954 |
Rating | : 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In Revising Dreyfus, contributors from a wide variety of disciplines (art history, film, media, theater, sociology, history) offer new ways of understanding the ever-evolving meanings of the Dreyfus Affair. Although the Dreyfusards led the way in explicating the nuances of the Affair in lengthy treatises, the anti-Dreyfusards far outstripped their opponents on the graphic front, particularly through print media, photographs, postcards, broadsides, films, illustrated journal covers, and the plastic arts. Revising Dreyfus traces the dominant modes of “seeing” the Dreyfus Affair, often in opposition to “reading” the Affair in three major contexts: French, Zionist, and American.