While America Watches : Televising the Holocaust

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shandler, Jeffrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), on television.

Television broadcasting--United States.

Local Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), on television.

Television broadcasting--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (631 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Holocaust holds a unique place in American public culture, and, as Jeffrey Shandler argues in While America Watches, it is television, more than any other medium, that has brought the Holocaust into our homes, our hearts, and our minds. Much has been written about Holocaust film and literature, and yet the medium that brings the subject to most people--television--has been largely neglected. Now Shandler provides the first account of how television has familiarized the American people with the Holocaust. He starts with wartime newsreels of liberated concentration camps, showing how they se

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Creating the Viewer (1945-1960); 1. The Image as Witness; 2. "This Is Your Life"; 3. The Theater of Our Century; Part Two: Into the Limelight (1961-1978); 4. The Man in the Glass Box; 5. A Guest in the Wasteland; 6. The Big Event; Part Three: A Household word (1979-1995); 7. The Rise of the Survivor; 8. The Master Paradigm; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-988147-2

0-19-518258-8

1-4237-3866-7

0-19-534984-9

1-60256-429-9

OCLC:

782865394