Holocaust and the moving image / edited by Toby Haggith and Joanna Newman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haggith, Toby.

Newman, Joanna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower, 2005.

Summary:

Based on a major symposium held at the Imperial War Museum in 2001, this book is a unique blend of voices and perspectives - archivists, curators, filmmakers, scholars and Holocaust survivors. Each section of the book is dedicated to a different category of moving image: film as witness; propaganda; documentary in film and television; feature films; the legacy of the Holocaust and other genocides. These considerations are set within the wider context of the history of the Holocaust and how they may have contributed to awareness and understanding of the cataclysm since the war. Accessible, engaging and stimulating, this book is an excellent introduction to the subject, discussing such key titles as The Eternal Jew (1940) and Night and Fog (1955), and themes such as the use of film and video in war crimes trials, film and memory, and the moving image and post-Holocaust genocides. The book also encourages the reader to move beyond Schindler's List (1993) and Life is Beautiful (1997) to consider forgotten classics of the genre such as The Long Journey (1949) and Passenger (1963).

Contents:

Section I. Film as witness

Film and the making of the Imperial War Museum's Holocaust exhibition / Suzanne Bardgett

Preparing the video displays for the Imperial War Museum's Holocaust exhibition / Annie Dodds

Filming the liberation of Bergen-Belsen / Toby Haggith

Separate intentions : the Allied screening of concentration camp documentaries in defeated Germany in 1945-46 : Death mills and Memory of the camps / Kay Gladstone

A witness to atrocity : film as evidence in international war crimes tribunals / Helen Lennon

Section II. Film as propaganda

Veit Harlan's Jud Süss / Susan Tegel

Fritz Hippler's The eternal Jew / Terry Charman

Film documents of Theresienstadt / Lutz Becker

Terezin : the town Hitler gave to the Jews / Zdenka Fantlova-Ehrlich

The Ministry of Information and anti-Fascist short films of the Second World War / Matthew Lee

Fighting the government with its own propaganda : the struggle for racial equality in the USA during the Second World War / Stephen Tuck

Section III. The Holocaust documentary in film and television

Nuit et Brouillard : a turning point in the history and memory of the Holocaust / Christian Delage

Baggage and responsibility - The world at war and the Holocaust / Michael Darlow

The Nazis : a warning from history / Laurence Rees

Kitty - Return to Auschwitz / Peter Morley

Some reflections on Claude Lanzmann's approach to the examination of the Holocaust / Raye Farr

But is it documentary? / Orly Yadin

Silence : the role of the animators / Ruth Lingfore & Tim Webb

Oswiecim/Auschwitz : the shooting goes on... / Mira Hamermesh

Seeing and hearing for ourselves : the spectacle of reality in the Holocaust documentary / Elizabeth Cowie

Section IV. The Holocaust in feature films

An overview of Hollywood cinema's treatment of the Holocaust / Trudy Gold

Escape from Sobibor : a film made for television depicting the mass escape from Sobibor Extermination Camp / Jack Gold

The Holocaust, film and education / Ian Wall

Young people's viewing of Holocaust films in different cultural contexts / Anna Reading

Living with the long journey : Alfréd Radok's Daleká Cesta / Jiří Cieslar

Double memory : the Holocaust in Polish film / Ewa Mazierska

For the few, not the many : delusion and denial in Italian Holocaust films / Giacomo Lichtner

The survivors' right to reply / Trudy Gold ... [et al.]

Section V. Legacy and other genocides

Human rights : does anyone care? / Rex Bloomstein

Journey into darkness / David G. Harrison

If the walls could speak (Les voix de la muette) / Daniela Zanzotto

Exploring the common threads of genocide : the Crimes Against Humanity Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum / Suzanne Bardgett & Annie Dodds.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1904764525

1904764517

OCLC:

57485164