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Rethinking Holocaust Film Reception

A British Case Study

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Taking early 21st century Britain as a case study, Rethinking Holocaust Film Reception: A British Case Study presents an intervention into the scholarship on the representation of the Holocaust on film. Based on a study of audience responses to select films, Stefanie Rauch demonstrates that the reception of films about the Holocaust is a complex process that we cannot understand through textual analysis alone, but by also paying attention to individual reception processes. This book restores the agency of viewers and takes seriously their diverse responses to representations of the Holocaust. It demonstrates that viewers’ interpretative resources play an important role in film reception. Viewers regard Holocaust films as a separate genre that they encounter with a set of expectations. The author highlights the implications of Britain’s lessons-focused approach to Holocaust education and commemoration and addresses debates around the supposed globalization of Holocaust memory by unpacking the peculiar Britishness of viewers’ responses to films about the Holocaust. A sense of emotional connection or its absence to the Holocaust and its memory speaks to divisions along ethnic, generational, and national lines.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-12-10
Mått164 x 239 x 20 mm
Vikt472 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory
Antal sidor228
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498594080

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Film inom Kultur
Förintelsen inom Historia och arkeologi
Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik

ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1 Holocaust Film Reception: A Microstudy from BritainChapter 2 Encountering the Holocaust in BritainChapter 3 True Stories: Conspiracy, The Grey Zone, and DefianceChapter 4 Fiction: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The ReaderChapter 5 Engaging with Films: Holocaust Film as GenreChapter 6 Ambiguous Narratives: British Perspectives on Perpetrators and VictimsChapter 7 Universal Discourses and National NarrativesChapter 8 Rethinking Holocaust Film Reception: History, Film and MemoryBibliographyAbout the Author

Film has been a critical dynamo in the formation of cultural memories of the Holocaust over the past generation. Yet for too long the impact of these works has been presumed or speculated. This innovative book provides a much-needed exploration of the complex ways in which Holocaust films and their viewers intersect and interact. Skilfully employing tools from social and cultural studies, Rauch demonstrates how ‘a grounded theory of Holocaust film reception’ brings new insights and lines of enquiry. As much as Rethinking Holocaust Film Reception enriches our understanding of Holocaust memory in Britain, it forwards a template with broader applicability - opening up fronts for similar research elsewhere and posing new questions about the interplay between memory, education, and representation.

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