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Author Insdorf, Annette.

Title Indelible shadows : film and the Holocaust / Annette Insdorf.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Edition 3rd ed.
Description 1 online resource (xix, 410 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-387) and index.
Contents Finding an appropriate language. The Hollywood version of the Holocaust ; Meaningful montage ; Styles of tension ; Black humor -- Narrative strategies. The Jew as child ; In hiding/onstage ; Beautiful evasions? ; The condemned and doomed -- Responses to Nazi atrocity. Political resistance ; The ambiguity of identity ; The new German guilt -- Shaping reality. The personal documentary ; From judgment to illumination -- Third edition update. The Holocaust as genre ; Rediscoveries ; Rescuers in fiction films ; The ironic touch ; Dysfunction as distortion: the Holocaust survivor on screen and stage ; Documentaries of return.
Summary The third edition of Indelible Shadows includes five new chapters. It addresses the treatment of rescuers, as in 'Schindler's List'; the controversial use of humor, as in 'Life is Beautiful'; the distorted image of survivors, and the growing genre of documentaries that return to the scene of the crime or rescue.
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Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Filmkunst.
Holocaust.
Other Form: Print version: Insdorf, Annette. Indelible shadows. 3rd ed. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521815630 0521016304 (DLC) 2002023793 (OCoLC)49326981
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