Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. SETTING THE SCENE -- 1 Péter Forgács: An Interview -- 2 The Memory of Loss: Péter Forgács's Saga of Family Life and Social Hell -- PART II. THE HOLOCAUST FILMS -- 3 Toward a New Historiography: The Aesthetics of Temporality -- 4 Ordinary Film: The Maelstrom -- 5 Historical Discourses of the Unimaginable: The Maelstrom -- 6 Waiting, Hoping, among the Ruins of All the Rest -- 7 The Trace: Framing the Presence of the Past in Free Fall -- PART III. OTHER FILMS/OTHER CONTEXTS -- 8 How to Make History Perceptible: The Bartos Family and the Private Hungary Series -- 9 Found Images as Witness to Central European History: A Bibó Reader and Miss Universe 1929 -- 10 Reenvisioning the Documentary Fact: On Saying and Showing in Wittgenstein Tractatus and Bourgeois Dictionary -- 11 The World Rewound: Wittgenstein Tractatus -- 12 Taking the Part for the Whole: Some Thoughts Inspired by the Film Music of Tibor Szemzö -- 13 Analytical Spaces: The Installations of Péter Forgács -- 14 Reorchestrating History: Transforming The Danube Exodus into a Database Documentary -- Acknowledgments -- Filmography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.