Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century : Images, Memory, and the Ethics of Representation / Gerd Bayer Bayer, Oleksandr Kobrynskyy Kobrynskyy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bayer, Gerd Bayer, editor.

Kobrynskyy, Oleksandr Kobrynskyy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Motion pictures--History--21st century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

revised edition

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century, a large number of films were produced in Europe, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere addressing the historical reality and the legacy of the Holocaust. Contemporary Holocaust cinema exists at the intersection of national cultural traditions, aesthetic conventions, and the inner logic of popular forms of entertainment. It also reacts to developments in both fiction and documentary films following the innovations of a postmodern aesthetic. With the number of witnesses to the atrocities of Nazi Germany dwindling, medialized representations of the Holocaust take on greater cultural significance. At the same time, visual responses to the task of keeping memories alive have to readjust their value systems and reconsider their artistic choices.Both established directors and a new generation of filmmakers have tackled the ethically difficult task of finding a visual language to represent the past that is also relatable to viewers. Both geographical and spatial principles of Holocaust memory are frequently addressed in original ways. Another development concentrates on perpetrator figures, adding questions related to guilt and memory. Covering such diverse topics, this volume brings together scholars from cultural studies, literary studies, and film studies. Their analyses of twenty-first-century Holocaust films venture across national and linguistic boundaries and make visible various formal and intertextual relationships within the substantial body of Holocaust cinema.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction. The Next Chapter in the History of Holocaust Cinema / Kobrynskyy, Oleksandr / Bayer, Gerd

Part One. The past and its presence

1. Transformations of Holocaust Memory / Assmann, Aleida

2. Supplementing Shoah / Vice, Sue

3. The Act of Digging / Prager, Brad

4. The Willing Amnesia / Gershenson, Olga

5. Wilhelm Brasse's Photographs from Auschwitz / Łysak, Tomasz

Part two. The ethics of memory

6. The Singular Jew / Kapczynski, Jennifer M.

7. Locked doors and Hidden Graves / Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Tobias

8. The Ethics of Perspective and the Holocaust Archive / Modlinger, Martin

Part three. The legacy of evil

9. 'The doctor is different' / McGlothlin, Erin

10. On the Cinematic Nazi / Kerner, Aaron

11. The Holocaust as Case Study / Kobrynskyy, Oleksandr

12. TV as a Historical Archive? / Stiglegger, Marcus

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231850919

0231850913

OCLC:

1013966071