Ep. 21- The Zone of Interest with Barry Langford

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Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2023) is a haunting film focused on the domestic life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family. The family lived in a villa directly next to the Auschwitz I camp.
In this podcast, I talk with film scholar and screenwriter Barry Langford about the history of Holocaust film as well as The Zone of Interest. We cover a lot of ground from technical choices to the nature of the so-called “banality of evil.”
The Zone of Interest is available for free on Amazon Prime UK and for purchase on Amazon US.

Barry Langford (pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/barry-lang…) is a professor of film studies at Royal Holloway University. He is also an award-winning professional screenwriter.

Langford, Barry and R. Eaglestone (eds). Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film (amzn.to/3wUtt81) (2007)
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