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Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust » (3rd Edition)

Book cover image of Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust by Annette Insdorf

Authors: Annette Insdorf
ISBN-13: 9780521016308, ISBN-10: 0521016304
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: February 2003
Edition: 3rd Edition

Author Biography: Annette Insdorf

Book Synopsis

Includes five additional chapters that cover recent trends, as well as rediscoveries of motion pictures.

Booknews

A paper reprint of the original (1983) to which a brief new foreword by Elie Wiesel has been added. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction
1	The Hollywood Version of the Holocaust	3
2	Meaningful Montage	27
3	Styles of Tension	43
4	Black Humor	59
5	The Jew as Child	77
6	In Hiding/Onstage	93
7	Beautiful Evasions?	111
8	The Condemned and Doomed	125
9	Political Resistance	139
10	The Ambiguity of Identity	159
11	The New German Guilt	177
12	The Personal Documentary	199
13	From Judgment to Illumination	221
14	The Holocaust as Genre	245
15	Rediscoveries	250
16	Rescuers in Fiction Films	258
17	The Ironic Touch	276
18	Dysfunction as Distortion: The Holocaust Survivor on Screen and Stage	293
19	Documentaries of Return	300
	Annotated Filmography (Third Edition)	313
	Filmography (Second Edition)	357
	Notes	367
	Bibliography (Second Edition)	377
	Bibliography (Third Edition)	383
	Relevant Websites	389
	Index	391

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