Indelible Shadows investigates some of the profound questions raised by any attempt to create a film based on the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? Annette Insdorf recognizes the dilemma inherent in dealing with this sensitive and controversial subject. She probes cinematic language and its capacity to stimulate the audience's moral consideration. The book not only provides sensitive readings of individual films but also analyzes more theoretical issues such as the 'truth claims' of the cinematic medium.
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'By looking at the Holocaust through the filter of [125] fictional and documentary films, Annette Insdorf has succeeded in combining history and popular culture into a scholarly and readable work.' Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times
' ... a powerful, passionate and poignant book with many virtues ... Her understanding of film is superb and her sensitivity to the Holocaust is evident throughout her work.' Michael Berenbaum, project Director, U. S. Holocaust Museum
' ... a powerful, passionate and poignant book with many virtues ... Her understanding of film is superb and her sensitivity to the Holocaust is evident throughout her work.' Michael Berenbaum, project Director, U. S. Holocaust Museum
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The third edition of Indelible Shadows includes five new chapters that cover recent trends, as well as rediscoveries of motion pictures made during and just after World War II. 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. The annotated filmography offers capsule summaries and information about another hundred Holocaust films from around the world, making this edition the most comprehensive and up to date discussion of films about the Holocaust.
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Few Americans films have confronted the darker realities of World War II-ghettos, occupation, deportation, concentration camps, collaboration, extermination. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
archival footage, subjective camera, tin drum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, New York, The Last Metro, Les Violons du Bal, Lili Marleen, The Great Dictator, The Memory of Justice, Black Thursday, Our Hitler, The Condemned of Altona, Seven Beauties, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Sophie's Choice, High Street, The Last Stop, Elie Wiesel, Hotel Terminus, The Serpent's Egg, The Tin Drum, United States, Heil Hitler, Marcel Ophuls, Professor Mamlock, The Diary of Anne Frank, Angry Harvest New!
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Few Americans films have confronted the darker realities of World War II-ghettos, occupation, deportation, concentration camps, collaboration, extermination. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
archival footage, subjective camera, tin drum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, New York, The Last Metro, Les Violons du Bal, Lili Marleen, The Great Dictator, The Memory of Justice, Black Thursday, Our Hitler, The Condemned of Altona, Seven Beauties, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Sophie's Choice, High Street, The Last Stop, Elie Wiesel, Hotel Terminus, The Serpent's Egg, The Tin Drum, United States, Heil Hitler, Marcel Ophuls, Professor Mamlock, The Diary of Anne Frank, Angry Harvest New!
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- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani on 5 pages
- War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk on 5 pages
- A Jew Today by Elie Wiesel on 5 pages
- Hitler: A Film from Germany by Hans-Jurgen Syberberg on 4 pages
- Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 by Robert O. Paxton on page 83, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Witness and Memory: The Discourse of Trauma by Ana Douglass in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust: Gender, Culture and Memory by Anna Reading on page 78, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Not So Foreign Affair: Fascism, Sexuality, and the Cultural Rhetoric of American Democracy by Andrea Slane in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Women Directors: The Emergence of a New Cinema by Quart on page 237, and Back Matter
- Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzystzof Kieslowski by Annette Insdorf in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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