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The problematic representation of Mizrahi Jews in Israeli films has been extensively researched over the past few decades. The subject was first thoroughly analyzed in Ella Shohat's comprehensive 1989 study, Israeli Cinema: East/West and... more
"If the international Finance-Jewry inside and outside of Europe should succeed in plunging the peoples of the earth once again into a world war, the result will be ...the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe." Hitler's speech to the... more
A settant’anni dalla retata del 16 ottobre 1943, non esiste alcuna immagi- ne originale, fissa o in movimento, che rappresenti gli eventi di quella tragica mattina. Se la grande razzia degli ebrei di Roma rappresenta, in un certo sen- so,... more
Race remains problematic in the twenty-first century for the reconstruction of historical German Holocaust memory through fictional cinema productions. A case study of black British director Amma Asante’s 2018 British romantic war drama... more
Holocaust Humor, Satire, and Parody on Israeli Television
De Ratones y Héroes, debe ser leído para contemplar con la debida distancia la sombra narrativa de Maus sobre la producción imaginaria contemporánea. En el hilo secreto que anuda los campos de concentración con el campamento de... more
This book analyzes sensationalized Nazi and Holocaust representations in Anglo-American cultural and political discourses. Recognizing that this history is increasingly removed from contemporary life, it explains how irreverent... more
An exploration of Shklovsky's ostranenie in relation to "Son of Saul" and other Holocaust films, in particular considering artworks' moral and formal obligations in the representation of the Shoah.
The film "Le Fils de Saul", by László Nemes, avoids the pitfall of offering a fiction of the Shoah. It is a cinema of enunciation, where the film "says" the barbarity of the extermination, thus questioning the spectator, who is called on... more
To książka o polskiej pamięci Zagłady i o tym, jak – obok wielu innych czynników - kształtowało ją polskie kino. Zbudowany przez nie obraz Holokaustu konfrontuję z wiedzą historyczną, pracami naukowców związanych z Żydowskim Instytutem... more
This paper is about the changing form and meaning of gas chamber representation in Holocaust movies, documentaries and experimental films from 1944-2013.
Der vorliegende Band rekonstruiert die bisher wenig beachtete Auseinandersetzung der bis 1961 entstandenen westdeutschen dokumentarischen Filme mit der NS-Vergangenheit, dem Holocaust und dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Aufbauend auf eine... more
This essay begins by observing that while images and texts that emanated from the 'final stage' of the Holocaust seem to be a privileged source in depictions of the Holocaust, the specific features of this stage itself often remain... more
This article examines representations of the Holocaust in American feature films between 1944 and 1959.
Wynalezienie bomby atomowej było przełomowym wydarzeniem nie tylko w dziejach II wojny światowej, ale historii świata w ogóle. Niektórzy uważają, że był to wstęp do współczesności. Dopiero od tego momentu ludzkość jest w stanie unicestwić... more
Zamierzeniem tej książki nie było stworzenie historii politycznej, społecznej lub gospodarczej Trzeciej Rzeszy – ani nawet jej kina. Kino nazistowskie potraktowane zostało jako wielka machina wyobrażeń społecznych, która w ciągu dwunastu... more
The Passenger is based on the 1961 novel by Zofia Posmysz, which depicts her own experiences as an Auschwitz prisoner. The novel was inspired by a 1959 incident on board the Place de la Concorde when, while travelling, Posmysz overheard a... more
„Du sollst dir kein Bildnis noch irgendein Abbild machen“ (Exodus 20, 4), weder von Gott noch vom Holocaust. Diesen Eindruck muss jeder gewinnen, der aufmerksam Claude Lanzmanns Einspruch gegen „Schindlers Liste“ aus dem Jahr 1994 gelesen... more
Gli occhiali d’oro (1987) è l’undicesimo lungometraggio di finzione diretto da Giuliano Montaldo. Co-produzione tra Ita- lia, Francia e Jugoslavia, presentato in concorso alla 44° Mostra internazionale d’arte cinematografica di Venezia,... more
While many works have been published on different aspects of the Holocaust and genocides, their aftermath and impact on society still require further research and discussion in scholarly literature. This book illuminates unknown aspects... more
This review article compares and contrasts Ben Urwand's Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hilter and Thomas Doherty's Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1938.
A partir da história cultural da repercussão da série de TV “Holocausto” (1978), que redefiniu políticas de governo e instaurou uma inédita centralidade do testemunho no campo da cultura, abalando o modo como o genocídio judeu era até... more
Maus de Art Spiegelman supone el triunfo de la historieta como un medio que no pide prestada su legitimidad de las otras artes y que construye una de las más terribles y maravillosas representaciones del horror del Holocausto con recursos... more
absTracT Yoram Gross is Australia's most successful director of animated films for children. As an adolescent in wartime Poland, he lost his father and grandparents in the Ho-locaust and, with his immediate family, evaded capture by the... more
This essay describes how the cinematic style, form and narrative of Oliver Hirschbiegel’s film Downfall (2004) convey a particular interpretation of history: one that is at odds with the schema of descent signified by its title. For as... more
For many years, Israeli culture recoiled from dealing with the Holocaust from a humorous or satirical perspective. The perception was that a humorous approach might threaten the sanctity of its memory, or evoke feelings of disrespect... more
Israeli feature films in the first decades of Israel were dominated by ideological considerations and focused on the importance of establishing a Jewish state in the Land of Israel. As part of this process, Holocaust survivors were... more