Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Foreword by Elie Wiesel......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
Part I Finding an Appropriate Language......Page 23
1 The Hollywood Version of the Holocaust......Page 25
2 Meaningful Montage......Page 49
3 Styles of Tension......Page 65
4 Black Humor......Page 81
Part II Narrative Strategies......Page 97
5 The Jew as Child......Page 99
6 In Hiding/Onstage......Page 115
7 Beautiful Evasions?......Page 133
8 The Condemned and Doomed......Page 147
Part III Responses to Nazi Atrocity......Page 159
9 Political Resistance......Page 161
10 The Ambiguity of Identity......Page 181
11 The New German Guilt......Page 199
Part IV Shaping Reality......Page 219
13 From Judgment to Illumination......Page 243
Part V Third Edition Update......Page 265
14 The Holocaust as Genre......Page 267
15 Rediscoveries......Page 272
16 Rescuers in Fiction Films......Page 280
17 The Ironic Touch......Page 298
18 Dysfunction as Distortion: The Holocaust Survivor on Screen and Stage......Page 315
19 Documentaries of Return......Page 322
Annotated Filmography (Third Edition)......Page 335
Germany......Page 351
France......Page 356
Other European Countries......Page 358
English-language Films......Page 363
Holocaust in the Background......Page 372
Fiction Features......Page 379
Documentaries......Page 384
Rental Sources......Page 387
1 The Hollywood Version of the Holocaust......Page 389
2 Meaningful Montage......Page 390
5 The Jew as Child......Page 391
6 In Hiding/Onstage......Page 392
9 Political Resistance......Page 393
11 The New German Guilt......Page 394
12 The Personal Documentary......Page 395
13 From Judgment to Illumination......Page 396
17 The Ironic Touch......Page 397
Books......Page 399
Articles......Page 402
Foreign and Other Periodicals......Page 404
Books......Page 405
Articles......Page 407
Relevant Websites......Page 411
Index......Page 413