Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-first Century: Memory, Images, and the Ethics of Representation
- ISBN-10
- 0231174233
- ISBN-13
- 9780231174237
- Category
- Collective memory and motion pictures
- Pages
- 267
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Authors
- Gerd Bayer, Oleksandr Kobrynskyy
Description
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, visual responses to the task of keeping memories alive have to readjust their value systems and reconsider their artistic choices.
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