{"product_id":"rethinking-holocaust-film-reception-9781498594080","title":"Rethinking Holocaust Film Reception","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking early 21st century Britain as a case study, Rethinking Holocaust Film Reception: A British Case Study presents an intervention into the scholarship on the representation of the Holocaust on film. Based on a study of audience responses to select films, Stefanie Rauch demonstrates that the reception of films about the Holocaust is a complex process that we cannot understand through textual analysis alone, but by also paying attention to individual reception processes. This book restores the agency of viewers and takes seriously their diverse responses to representations of the Holocaust. It demonstrates that viewers' interpretative resources play an important role in film reception. Viewers regard Holocaust films as a separate genre that they encounter with a set of expectations. The author highlights the implications of Britain's lessons-focused approach to Holocaust education and commemoration and addresses debates around the supposed globalization of Holocaust memory by unpa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Holocaust Film Reception: A Microstudy from Britain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Encountering the Holocaust in Britain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 True Stories: Conspiracy, The Grey Zone, and Defiance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Fiction: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Reader\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Engaging with Films: Holocaust Film as Genre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Ambiguous Narratives: British Perspectives on Perpetrators and Victims\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Universal Discourses and National Narratives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Rethinking Holocaust Film Reception: History, Film and Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040866402647,"sku":"9781498594080","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498594080.jpg?v=1750948116","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rethinking-holocaust-film-reception-9781498594080","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}