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Book SynopsisAnalyses of twenty-first-century Holocaust films that venture across national and linguistic boundaries and make visible various formal and intertextual relationships within the substantial body of Holocaust cinema.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: The Next Chapter in the History of Holocaust Cinema, by Oleksandr Kobrynskyy and Gerd Bayer Part One: The Past and Its Presence 1. Transformations of Holocaust Memory: Frames of Transmission and Mediation, by Aleida Assmann 2. Supplementing Shoah: Claude Lanzmann's The Karski Report and The Last of the Unjust, by Sue Vice 3. The Act of Digging: Archaeology, Photography and Forensics in Birthplace and Holocaust by Bullets, by Brad Prager 4. The Willing Amnesia: The Holocaust in Post-Soviet Cinema, by Olga Gershenson 5. Wilhelm Brasse's Photographs from Auschwitz: Testimony and Photography in Irek Dobrowolski's The Portraitist, by Tomasz Lysak Part Two: The Ethics of Memory 6. The Singular Jew: Representing National Socialism's Jewish Victims in Recent Historical Cinema, by Jennifer M. Kapczynski 7. Locked Doors and Hidden Graves: Searching the Past in Poklosie, Sarah's Key and Ida, by Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann 8. The Ethics of Perspective and the Holocaust Archive: Spielberg's List, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Fateless, by Martin Modlinger Part Three: The Legacy of Evil 9. 'The Doctor is Different': Ambivalent Ethics, Cinematic Heroics and the Figure of the Jewish Doctor in Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone, by Erin McGlothlin 10. On the Cinematic Nazi, by Aaron Kerner 11. The Holocaust as Case Study: Universalist Rhetoric and National Memory in Stefan Ruzowitzky's Radical Evil, by Oleksandr Kobrynskyy 12. TV as a Historical Archive? How Epic Family Series Memorialise the Holocaust, by Marcus Stiglegger Index
