Dominic Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3989222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominic Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominic |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7387-8928 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Colourised histories, reading digital/analogue photography and film archives now
The faces of Auschwitz
Placing the Location Outtakes of Shoah
This article considers how to read the location outtakes of Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah (1985). These film reels — now digitized and available on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's website — often seem to offer little content, and demand different ways of viewing to make any sense of them. I link them to two other types of viewing experience: watching landscapes filmed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub and using online maps suc…
Embodying the Auschwitz Sonderkommando in extreme metal
Prompted by the Meads of Asphodel album Sonderkommando (2013), this article considers ways in which the Auschwitz Sonderkommando (SK) figure in extreme metal. While there are not many metal songs about the SK, they feature far more in metal lyrics than in almost all other music genres. Attracted by obscure and difficult parts of history, metal bands draw on their practices to ‘embody’ the SK: not simply representing them, but feeling and acting o…
The Auschwitz Sonderkommando
Feel the Knife Pierce You Intensely’
This article tackles a well-known but little-studied phenomenon: the importance of Holocaust themes to heavy metal. The fascination of metal bands with evil and death has until recently been met outside the scene with such reactions as moral panic, disgust or indifference. In the last ten years, however, scholars in an emerging discourse of Metal Studies have attempted to engage more critically with the social and musical dimensions of metal, in …
Figuring the Grey Zone
This essay reads the ways in which the Auschwitz Sonderkommando figure in the film The Grey Zone (2001) and the comic book Magneto: Testament (2009). The almost archetypally traumatic experiences of the Sonderkommando have made them a difficult subject for many media. But in forms and genres which place great emphasis on character and plot it has actually made them a way to figure some of the key difficulties of trauma. This essay shows how the g…
Matters of Testimony
Matters of Testimony
In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando—the “special squads,” composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these “Scrolls of Auschwitz,” which were gradually recovered, in damaged and…
Affective Trans-scapes
Erín Moure’s The Unmemntioable (2012) tells a story of one of the poet’s heteronyms (E.M. or Erín Moure) taking her mother’s ashes back to Ukraine, while observed, and then followed, by another (E.S. or Elisa Sampedrín). As selves multiply, the landscapes through which they move, split, and superimpose themselves upon each other: Bucharest, Alberta, and the Galicias of both Spain and Ukraine. Words too traverse different languages and different m…
No History to Speak Of”
This study argues that an important part of the relationship between modernist literature and the modern Jewish experience can be understood through an examination of the novel Memoirs of Other Fronts (1932), written by John Rodker, but published anonymously. It shows that Rodker, who had been associated with major figures of Anglo-American modernism throughout the 1920s, was engaged in a complex and often painful negotiation of identity that was…
Public Local Inquiries—Formal Administrative Adjudication
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Affective Trans-scapes
Erín Moure’s The Unmemntioable (2012) tells a story of one of the poet’s heteronyms (E.M. or Erín Moure) taking her mother’s ashes back to Ukraine, while observed, and then followed, by another (E.S. or Elisa Sampedrín). As selves multiply, the landscapes through which they move, split, and superimpose themselves upon each other: Bucharest, Alberta, and the Galicias of both Spain and Ukraine. Words too traverse different languages and different m…
Placing the Location Outtakes of Shoah
This article considers how to read the location outtakes of Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah (1985). These film reels — now digitized and available on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's website — often seem to offer little content, and demand different ways of viewing to make any sense of them. I link them to two other types of viewing experience: watching landscapes filmed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub and using online maps suc…
Public Local Inquiries—Formal Administrative Adjudication
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Public Local Inquiries—Formal Administrative Adjudication
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
No History to Speak Of”
This study argues that an important part of the relationship between modernist literature and the modern Jewish experience can be understood through an examination of the novel Memoirs of Other Fronts (1932), written by John Rodker, but published anonymously. It shows that Rodker, who had been associated with major figures of Anglo-American modernism throughout the 1920s, was engaged in a complex and often painful negotiation of identity that was…
Matters of Testimony
Matters of Testimony
In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando—the “special squads,” composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these “Scrolls of Auschwitz,” which were gradually recovered, in damaged and…
Affective Trans-scapes
Erín Moure’s The Unmemntioable (2012) tells a story of one of the poet’s heteronyms (E.M. or Erín Moure) taking her mother’s ashes back to Ukraine, while observed, and then followed, by another (E.S. or Elisa Sampedrín). As selves multiply, the landscapes through which they move, split, and superimpose themselves upon each other: Bucharest, Alberta, and the Galicias of both Spain and Ukraine. Words too traverse different languages and different m…
Figuring the Grey Zone
This essay reads the ways in which the Auschwitz Sonderkommando figure in the film The Grey Zone (2001) and the comic book Magneto: Testament (2009). The almost archetypally traumatic experiences of the Sonderkommando have made them a difficult subject for many media. But in forms and genres which place great emphasis on character and plot it has actually made them a way to figure some of the key difficulties of trauma. This essay shows how the g…
The Auschwitz Sonderkommando
Feel the Knife Pierce You Intensely’
This article tackles a well-known but little-studied phenomenon: the importance of Holocaust themes to heavy metal. The fascination of metal bands with evil and death has until recently been met outside the scene with such reactions as moral panic, disgust or indifference. In the last ten years, however, scholars in an emerging discourse of Metal Studies have attempted to engage more critically with the social and musical dimensions of metal, in …
Embodying the Auschwitz Sonderkommando in extreme metal
Prompted by the Meads of Asphodel album Sonderkommando (2013), this article considers ways in which the Auschwitz Sonderkommando (SK) figure in extreme metal. While there are not many metal songs about the SK, they feature far more in metal lyrics than in almost all other music genres. Attracted by obscure and difficult parts of history, metal bands draw on their practices to ‘embody’ the SK: not simply representing them, but feeling and acting o…
Placing the Location Outtakes of Shoah
This article considers how to read the location outtakes of Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah (1985). These film reels — now digitized and available on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's website — often seem to offer little content, and demand different ways of viewing to make any sense of them. I link them to two other types of viewing experience: watching landscapes filmed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub and using online maps suc…
Colourised histories, reading digital/analogue photography and film archives now
The faces of Auschwitz
Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)