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Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Images, Memory, and the Ethics of Representation
Gerd (Ed) Bayer
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Paperback. Editor(s): Bayer, Gerd; Kobrynskyy, Oleksandr. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
In the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century, a large number of films were produced in Europe, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere addressing the historical reality and the legacy of the Holocaust. Contemporary Holocaust cinema exists at the intersection of national cultural traditions, aesthetic conventions, and the inner logic of popular forms of entertainment. It also reacts to developments in both fiction and documentary films following the innovations of a postmodern aesthetic. With the number of witnesses to the atrocities of Nazi Germany dwindling, medialized representations of the Holocaust take on greater cultural significance. At the same time, ... Read more
In the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century, a large number of films were produced in Europe, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere addressing the historical reality and the legacy of the Holocaust. Contemporary Holocaust cinema exists at the intersection of national cultural traditions, aesthetic conventions, and the inner logic of popular forms of entertainment. It also reacts to developments in both fiction and documentary films following the innovations of a postmodern aesthetic. With the number of witnesses to the atrocities of Nazi Germany dwindling, medialized representations of the Holocaust take on greater cultural significance. At the same time, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
413g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231174237
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V9780231174237
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About Gerd (Ed) Bayer
Oleksandr Kobrynskyy is a lecturer in the English department at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg. His current research focuses on representations of the Holocaust in Anglophone literatures and European cinema. Gerd Bayer is Privatdozent in the English department at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg. He has written on a wide range of topics and is coeditor of Literatur und Holocaust.
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