Film and the Holocaust : new perspectives on dramas, documentaries, and experimental films /
"When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis. This anxiety is, at least in part, rooted in Theodor Adorno's dictum that "To write poetry after Auschwitz...
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New York :
Continuum,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Realistic imperative
- 3. The Holocaust as dramatic spectacle
- 4. Defiance and resistance
- 5. Holocaust comedies?
- 6. Sadism and sexual deviance
- 7. Body genres I: Melodramatic holocaust films
- 8. Body genres II: Pornography and exploitation
- 9. Body genres III: The horror genre and the Holocaust
- 10. Holocaust documentaries I: Telling it like it really was
- 11. Holocaust documentaries II: Testimonials
- 12. Holocaust documentaries III: Personal documentaries
- 13. Holocaust documentaries IV: The poetic ocumentary
- 14. Experimental films I: Rituals of memory
- 15. Experimental films II: Lost and found (Footage).
