Film and the Holocaust : new perspectives on dramas, documentaries, and experimental films /
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Author / Creator: | Kerner, Aaron. |
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Imprint: | New York : Continuum, 2011. |
Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 344 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11256806 |
ISBN: | 9781441108937 1441108939 9781628928716 1628928719 9781441124180 1441124187 9781441170927 1441170928 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. Print version record. |
Summary: | "When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis. This anxiety is, at least in part, rooted in Theodor Adorno's dictum that "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric." And despite the fact that he later reversed his position, the conservative opposition to all "artistic" representations of the Holocaust remains powerful, leading to the insistent demand that it be represented, as it really was. And yet, whether it's the girl in the red dress or a German soldier belting out Bach on a piano during the purge of the ghetto in Schindler's List, or the use of tracking shots in the documentaries Shoah and Night and Fog, all genres invent or otherwise embellish the narrative to locate meaning in an event that we commonly refer to as "unimaginable." This wide-ranging book surveys and discusses the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in cinema, covering a deep cross-section of both national cinemas and genres."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
Other form: | Print version: Kerner, Aaron. Film and the Holocaust. New York : Continuum, 2011 9781441124180 |
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