Projecting the Holocaust into the present : the changing focus of contemporary Holocaust cinema / Lawrence Baron.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-277) and index.

Includes filmography: pages 279-289.

Chapter 1 The Holocaust: A Cinematic Cataclysm? -- Chapter 2 Picturing the Holocaust in the Past -- The GI and the DP: The Search -- The Decade of the Diary: The Diary of Anne Frank -- The Venality of Evil: The Shop on Main Street -- Mini-Series, Maxi-Impact: Holocaust -- Chapter 3 The Biopic : Personalizing Perpetrators, Victims, and Resisters -- The Dictator as Director : The Empty Mirror -- The Christian as Martyr : Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace -- The Jew as Martyr : Korczak -- The Jew as Fugitive : Europa, Europa. -- The Jew as Inmate : Triumph of the Spirit -- Chapter 4 Condemned Couples -- Pygmalion and Persecution : Martha and I -- Muffled Music : The Harmonists -- Ostracizing the Outsider : Jew Boy Levi -- A Doubly Doomed Love : Aimée and Jaguar -- Pink Triangles and Yellow Stars : Bent -- Chapter 5 Serious Humor : Laughter as Lamentation -- The Nasty Ghoul : Genghis Cohn -- Lies His Father Told Him : Life Is Beautiful -- Fiddler on the Cattlecar Roof : Train of Life -- False Hope Is Better Than No Hope : Jakob the Liar -- A Gefilte Fish Out of Water : Mendel -- Chapter 6 The Children Are Watching : Holocaust Films for Youngsters -- Give Us Your Traumatized Yearning to Breath Free : Alan and Naomi -- Dancing to a Different Drummer : Swing Kids -- Alone Among the Cannibals : The Island on Bird Street -- Oz-Schwitz : The Devil's Arithmetic -- The Silver Lining : Miracle at Midnight -- Chapter 7 Relevant Remembrances : Themes in Recent Holocaust Movies -- Neo-Nazis as Holocaust Ghosts : Rosenzweig's Freedom -- Rescuers: From Saints to Sinners : Schindler's List -- New Lives, Old Arguments : The Quarrel -- Second Generation: Carrying the Parent's Baggage : Left Luggage -- Collective Silence Is Not Golden : The Nasty Girl -- Chapter 8 Projecting the Holocaust into the 21st Century -- Humanizing Hitler: The Dictator as a Young Man : Max and Hitler: The Rise of Evil -- The Soloist : The Pianist. -- Doubly Displaced : Nowhere in Africa -- The Limits of Realism : The Grey Zone -- Referential Treatment: The Holocaust as Pop Metaphor : X-Men -- Holocaust Cinema as Prosthetic Memory -- Filmography, 1990-2004