탈맥락화와 재맥락화로서의 윤리적 역사쓰기 : “포스트-기억 세대”의 홀로코스트 영화 재현에서 몽타주 전략이 갖는 문화 정치적 함의 읽기

This essay explores how cultural representations of the Holocaust have changed in Germany and Europe since the 1990s. After Germany was reunified in the 1990s, cultural understanding about the Holocaust has changed accordingly. Considering the changing Holocaust discourse, this essay examines three post-memory generation films, titled My Mother"s Courage (1995), The Specialist - Portrait of a Modern Criminal (1999), and Respite (2007). In fact, these films utilize archive footage taken from existing Holocaust films, while seeking to decontextualize or recontextualize the footage from its cultural backgrounds. This essay argues that these films, through their cinematic montage, invite viewers to reconsider pre-existing, or even ideological, cultural understandings embedded in the archive footage, thereby challenging the conventional reading of the Holocaust. I also highlight that, through this cinematic effort for de/recontextualization, these films inherit the ethical attitudes towards the Holocaust victims/their parent generation similarly to what Marianne Hirsch describes in her discussion of “the post-memory generation.”