Projecting the Holocaust into the Present The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema,9780742543331

Projecting the Holocaust into the Present The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema

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ISBN13: 9780742543331
ISBN10: 0742543331
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-11-01
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

In this accessible, clear, jargon free, and comprehensive text, Projecting the Holocaust into the Present offers an insightful historical perspective on how public conceptions of the Holocaust in film have changed over time.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
The Holocaust: A Cinematic Cataclysm?
1(22)
Notes
18(5)
Picturing the Holocaust in the Past: 1945--1979
23(42)
The GI and the DP: The Search
29(5)
The Decade of the Diary: The Diary of Anne Frank
34(6)
The Venality of Evil: The Shop on Main Street
40(7)
Miniseries, Maxi-Impact: Holocaust
47(8)
Notes
55(10)
The Biopic: Personalizing Perpetrators, Victims, and Resisters
65(38)
The Dictator as Director: The Empty Mirror
68(6)
The Christian as Martyr: Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace
74(4)
The Jew as Martyr: Korczak
78(6)
The Jew as Fugitive: Europa, Europa
84(5)
The Jew as Inmate: Triumph of the Spirit
89(4)
Notes
93(10)
Condemned Couples: Lovers and Liquidation
103(32)
Pygmalion and Persecution: Martha and I
107(4)
Muffled Music: The Harmonists
111(6)
Ostracizing the Outsider: Jew Boy Levi
117(4)
A Doubly Doomed Love: Aimee and Jaguar
121(4)
Pink Triangles and Yellow Stars: Bent
125(4)
Notes
129(6)
Serious Humor: Laughter as Lamentation
135(36)
The Nasty Ghoul: Genghis Cohn
139(4)
Lies His Father Told Him: Life Is Beautiful
143(6)
Fiddler on the Cattle-Car Roof: Train of Life
149(5)
False Hope Is Better Than No Hope: Jakob the Liar
154(6)
A Gefilte Fish out of Water: Mendel
160(4)
Notes
164(7)
The Children Are Watching: Holocaust Films for Youngsters
171(30)
Give Us Your Traumatized, Yearning to Breathe Free: Alan and Naomi
176(2)
Dancing to a Different Drummer: Swing Kids
178(5)
Alone among the Cannibals: The Island on Bird Street
183(4)
Oz-Schwitz: The Devil's Arithmetic
187(4)
The Silver Lining: Miracle at Midnight
191(5)
Notes
196(5)
Relevant Remembrances: Themes in Recent Holocaust Movies
201(38)
Neo-Nazis as Holocaust Ghosts: Rosenzweig's Freedom
201(6)
Rescuers---From Saints to Sinners: Schindler's List
207(8)
New Lives, Old Arguments: The Quarrel
215(5)
The Second Generation---Carrying the Parents' Baggage: Left Luggage
220(5)
Collective Silence Is Not Golden: The Nasty Girl
225(5)
Notes
230(9)
Projecting the Holocaust into the Twenty-first Century
239(30)
Humanizing Hitler---The Dictator as a Young Man: Max, Hitler: The Rise of Evil, and The Downfall
240(3)
The Soloist: The Pianist
243(5)
Doubly Displaced: Nowhere in Africa
248(5)
The Limits of Realism: The Grey Zone
253(5)
Referential Treatment---The Holocaust as Pop Metaphor: X-Men
258(4)
Holocaust Cinema as Prosthetic Memory
262(2)
Notes
264(5)
Selected Bibliography 269(10)
Filmography: 1990--2004 279(12)
Internet Resources 291(2)
Index 293(14)
About the Author 307

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