Brian E. Crim

Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Planet Auschwitz explores how the Holocaust has influenced science fiction and horror film and television. These genres explore important Holocaust themes - trauma, guilt, grief, ideological fervor and perversion, industrialized killing, and the dangerous afterlife of Nazism after World War II.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9781978801608
• ISBN-10: 1978801602
• Artikelnr.: 58037210

Autorenporträt

Brian E. Crim is professor of history at the University of Lynchburg in Virginia, and author of Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State and Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914-1938.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Images
Introduction
1          From Muselmann to "Walker": Holocaust Imagery in the Zombie
Genre               
2          Silent Screams: Representing Trauma and Grief in The Pawnbroker
and The Leftovers     
3          Nazi Monsters and the Return of History      
4          The View from Hell: Demons, Antichrists and the Persistence of
Evil after the Holocaust  
5          "A World That Works": Astrofascism Across Time and Space
6          "All of this has happened before": Cyborgs, Humans, and the
Question of Genocide        
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Index