Holocaust film : the political aesthetics of ideology / by Terri Ginsberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ginsberg, Terri.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This timely new monograph takes as its starting point the provocative contention that Holocaust film scholarship has been marginalized academically despite the crucial role Holocaust film has played in fostering international awareness of the Nazi genocide and scholarly understandings of cinematic power. The book suggests political and economic motivations for this seeming paradox, the ideological parameters of which are evident in debates and controversies over Holocaust films themselves, an...

Contents:

Towards a critique of Holocaust cinematic culture

St. Korczak, martyr of Poland

The Quarrel in/over Quebec

Entre nous and the erotics of historical erasure

Holocaust "identity" and the Israeli/Palestinian Balagan

Holocaust Y2K : a polemical conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-215) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-19063-6

9786612190636

1-4438-0680-3

OCLC:

823386166