Annette Insdorf

Indelible Shadows

Film and the Holocaust

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Includes five additional chapters that cover recent trends, as well as rediscoveries of motion pictures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 853g
• ISBN-13: 9780521815635
• ISBN-10: 0521815630
• Artikelnr.: 22357303

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Finding an Appropriate Language: 1. The Hollywood version of the Holocaust
2. Meaningful montage
3. Styles of tension
4. Black humor
Part II. Narrative Strategies: 5. The Jew as child
6. In hiding/onstage
7. Beautiful evasions?
8. The condemned and doomed
Part III. Responses to Nazi Atrocity: 9. Political resistance
10. The ambiguity of identity
11. The new German guilt
Part IV. Shaping Reality: 12. The personal documentary
13. From judgment to illumination
Part V. Third Edition Update: 14. The Holocaust as genre
15. Rediscoveries
16. Rescuers in fiction films
17. The ironic touch
18. Dysfunction as distortion: the Holocaust survivor on screen and stage
19. Documentaries of return.

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Part I. Finding an Appropriate Language: 1. The Hollywood version of the Holocaust; 2. Meaningful montage; 3. Styles of tension; 4. Black humor; Part II. Narrative Strategies: 5. The Jew as child; 6. In hiding/onstage; 7. Beautiful evasions?; 8. The condemned and doomed; Part III. Responses to Nazi Atrocity: 9. Political resistance; 10. The ambiguity of identity; 11. The new German guilt; Part IV. Shaping Reality: 12. The personal documentary; 13. From judgment to illumination; Part V. Third Edition Update: 14. The Holocaust as genre; 15. Rediscoveries; 16. Rescuers in fiction films; 17. The ironic touch; 18. Dysfunction as distortion: the Holocaust survivor on screen and stage; 19. Documentaries of return.

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"The standard book on the Holocaust in film..." The Nation