Stevens’ ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ and Resnais’ ‘Night and Fog’ and Their Universal Implications

Judith E. Doneson’s chapter on the film The Diary of Anne Frank (George Stevens, 1959), in her book The Holocaust in American Film, discusses the evolution of the singularly European work into a universal symbol (Doneson, 61). Although I agree with Doneson that the film extends far from the book’s Jewish roots in an attempt … Continue reading Stevens’ ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ and Resnais’ ‘Night and Fog’ and Their Universal Implications