Popular culture and the shaping of Holocaust memory in America / Alan Mintz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mintz, Alan L.

Series:

Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies

Samuel & Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture in motion pictures.

Public opinion--United States.

Public opinion.

Jews--United States--Attitudes.

Jews.

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Foreign public opinion, American.

Schindler's list (Motion picture).

Pawnbroker (Motion picture).

Judgment at Nuremberg (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans, yet rather than receding, this event has assumed a greater significance in the American consciousness with the passage of time. As a window into the process whereby the Holocaust has been appropriated in American culture, Hollywood movies are particularly luminous. Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America examines reactions to three films: Judgement at Nuremberg (1961), The Pawnbroker (1965), and Schindler's List (1992), and considers what those reactions reveal about the place of the Holocaust in the American mind, and how those films have shaped the popular perception of the Holocaust. It also considers the difference in the reception of the two earlier films when they first appeared in the 1960s and retrospective evaluations of them from closer to our own times. Alan Mintz also addresses the question of how Americans will shape the memory of the Holocaust in the future, concluding with observations on the possibilities and limitations of what is emerging as the major resource for the shaping of Holocaust memory -- videotaped survivor testimony. Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America examines some of the influences behind the broad and deep changes in American consciousness and the social forces that permitted the Holocaust to move from the margins to the center of American discourse.

Contents:

Preface

From silence to salience

Two models in the study of holocaust representation

The holocaust at the movies : Three studies in reception

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

The pawnbroker (1965)

Schindler's list (1993)

The future of memorialization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295803692

029580369X

OCLC:

930703979