Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century - Images, Memory, and the Ethics of Representation

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, visual responses to the task of keeping memories alive have to readjust their value systems and reconsider their artistic choices.

About the author

Gerd Bayer ist Privatdozent an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Summary

Analyses of twenty-first-century Holocaust films that venture across national and linguistic boundaries and make visible various formal and intertextual relationships within the substantial body of Holocaust cinema.

Product details

• Authors: Gerd Kobrynskyy Bayer
• Assisted by: Gerd Bayer (Editor), Bayer Gerd (Editor), Oleksandr Kobrynskyy (Editor), Kobrynskyy Oleksandr (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9780231174237
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17423-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism