Indelible Shadows
Indelible Shadows
Indelible Shadows investigates questions raised by films about the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? Annette Insdorf provides sensitive readings of individual films and analyzes theoretical issues such as the 'truth claims' of the cinematic medium. The third edition of Indelible Shadows includes five additional chapters that cover recent trends, as well as rediscoveries of motion pictures made during and just after World War II. It addresses the treatment of rescuers, as in 'Schindler's List'; the controversial use of humor, as in 'Life is Beautiful'; the distorted image of survivors, and the growing genre of documentaries that return to the scene of the crime or rescue. The annotated filmography offers capsule summaries and information about another hundred Holocaust films from around the world, making this edition an extremely comprehensive discussion of films about the Holocaust, and an invaluable resource for film programmers and educators.
- Comprehensive including discussion of 170 additional films
- The films are placed in rich contexts such as 'rescuers' or 'the use of irony' while the annotated filmography groups titles by genre (non-fiction and fiction) as well as country
- It incorporates additional material, such as photos and interviews with directors
Product details
February 2003Paperback
9780521016308
432 pages
235 × 156 × 30 mm
0.73kg
137 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. Finding an Appropriate Language:
- 1. The Hollywood version of the Holocaust
- 2. Meaningful montage
- 3. Styles of tension
- 4. Black humor
- Part II. Narrative Strategies:
- 5. The Jew as child
- 6. In hiding/onstage
- 7. Beautiful evasions?
- 8. The condemned and doomed
- Part III. Responses to Nazi Atrocity:
- 9. Political resistance
- 10. The ambiguity of identity
- 11. The new German guilt
- Part IV. Shaping Reality:
- 12. The personal documentary
- 13. From judgment to illumination
- Part V. Third Edition Update:
- 14. The Holocaust as genre
- 15. Rediscoveries
- 16. Rescuers in fiction films
- 17. The ironic touch
- 18. Dysfunction as distortion: the Holocaust survivor on screen and stage
- 19. Documentaries of return.
