The history of genocide in cinema : atrocities on screen / edited by Jonathan C. Friedman and William L. Hewitt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friedman, Jonathan C., 1966- editor.

Hewitt, William (William L.), 1947- editor.

Series:

International library of twentieth century history ; 92.

International library of twentieth century history ; 92

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide in motion pictures--History.

Genocide in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Summary:

The organization 'Genocide Watch' estimates that 100 million civilians around the globe have lost their lives as a result of genocide in only the past sixty years. Over the same period, the visual arts in the form of documentary footage has aided international efforts to document genocide and prosecute those responsible, but this book argues that fictional representation occupies an equally important and problematic place in the process of shaping minds on the subject. Edited by two of the leading experts in the field, this title analyzes fictional and semi-fictional portrayals of genocide, focusing on, amongst others, the repression of indigenous populations in Australia, the genocide of Native Americans in the 19th century, the Herero genocide, Armenia, the Holodomor (Stalin's policy of starvation in Ukraine), the Nazi Holocaust, Nanking and Darfur.

Contents:

Introduction / William L. Hewitt and Jonathan C. Friedman

Settler colonialism and the genocide in Australia / Sarah Maddison and Jane Mills

No good samaritans: Explaining African colonialism and underdevelopment in popular African films / Teresa A. Booker

"White saviors" unable to save the "other" in Hollywood's genocidal west / William L .Hewitt

Genocide as European empire building: the slaughter of the Herero of Namibia / Mark Malisa and Meriem Lahrizi

The Armenian genocide in film: Overcoming denial and loss / Armen T. Marsoobian

The Ukranian famine of 1932-1933 on screen: Making sense of suffering / Iuliia Kysla

The Holocaust in feature films: Problematic current trends and themes / Jonathan C. Friedman

Slaughter in China on film: Nanjing and "saving Asia" through mutilation / Mark V. DeStephano

Bangladesh: The forgotten genocide / Lynn Fallwell

Argentina's dirty war on film: The absent presence of the disappeared / Kristin C. Brunnemer

Featuring acts of genocide in Chilean film / Gloria J. Galindo

Screening the killing fields: The Cambodian genocide on film / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

"This time we're going to hit them without mercy": Indonesian operations and East Timor's first feature film / Clinton Fernandes

The Guatemalan genocide on film: An ongoing crisis and omission / Zachary Vincent Smith

Cinematic witnessing of the genocide in Bosnia 1992-1995: Toward a poetics of responsibility / David Pettigrew

"Truth" in films about the Rwandan genocide / Barbara A. Moss and Mary Afolabi

Stop a genocide or act in the national interest? A comparative examination of Hotel Rwanda and Attack on Darfur / Glen M.E. Duerr

Adults in children's bodies: Disabling children in Bahman Ghobadi's films / Eda Dedebas Dundar

Epilogues / Jonathan C. Friedman and William L. Hewitt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-313) and index.

ISBN:

9781350988750

1350988758

9781786720474

1786720477

OCLC:

1128176405