Physical Description
xix, 410 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Finding an appropriate language. The Hollywood version of the Holocaust ; Meaningful montage ; Styles of tension ; Black humor
Narrative strategies. The Jew as child ; In hiding/onstage ; Beautiful evasions? ; The condemned and doomed
Responses to Nazi atrocity. Political resistance ; The ambiguity of identity ; The new German guilt
Shaping reality. The personal documentary ; From judgment to illumination
Third edition update. The Holocaust as genre ; Rediscoveries ; Rescuers in fiction films ; The ironic touch ; Dysfunction as distortion: the Holocaust survivor on screen and stage ; Documentaries of return.
ISBN
0521815630
0521016304 (pb.)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-389) and index.
Filmography: p. 313-365.
Finding an appropriate language. The Hollywood version of the Holocaust ; Meaningful montage ; Styles of tension ; Black humor -- Narrative strategies. The Jew as child ; In hiding/onstage ; Beautiful evasions? ; The condemned and doomed -- Responses to Nazi atrocity. Political resistance ; The ambiguity of identity ; The new German guilt -- Shaping reality. The personal documentary ; From judgment to illumination -- Third edition update. The Holocaust as genre ; Rediscoveries ; Rescuers in fiction films ; The ironic touch ; Dysfunction as distortion: the Holocaust survivor on screen and stage ; Documentaries of return.
