Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust / Edition 3

by Annette Insdorf

Overview

Indelible Shadows investigates some of the profound questions raised by any attempt to create a film based on the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? Annette Insdorf recognizes the dilemma inherent in dealing with this sensitive and controversial subject. She probes cinematic language and its capacity to stimulate the audience's moral consideration. The book not only provides sensitive readings of individual films but also analyzes more theoretical issues such as the "truth claims" of the cinematic medium.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900521016307
Publication date:	11/25/2002
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	xi
	Preface	xiii
	Introduction	xv
I	Finding an Appropriate Language
1.	The Hollywood Version of the Holocaust	3
	Holocaust
	The Diary of Anne Frank
	Judgment at Nuremberg
	The Boys from Brazil
	Victory
	Voyage of the Damned
	Au Nom de tous les miens
	The Assault
	La Storia
	Hanna's War
	Playing for Time
	The Wall
	Escape from Sobibor
	War and Remembrance
2.	Meaningful Montage	29
	The Pawnbroker
	High Street
	Sophie's Choice
	Night and Fog
	Les Violons du Bal
	La Passante du Sans Souci
3.	Styles of Tension	45
	The Serpent's Egg
	Cabaret
	Kanal
	Ambulance
	Passenger
	The Boxer and Death
	Commissar
	Wherever You Are
4.	Black Humor	63
	The Great Dictator
	To Be or Not to Be
	Seven Beauties
II	Narrative Strategies
5.	The Jew as Child	81
	Black Thursday
	Entre Nous
	Natalia
	The Two of Us
	Goodbye
	Children
	The Evacuees
	David
	Raindrops
	The Revolt of Job
6.	In Hiding/Onstage	99
	The Condemned of Altona
	Samson
	The Last Metro
	Forbidden
	Angry Harvest
	The Boat Is Full
	Under the World
7.	Beautiful Evasions?	117
	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
	Les Violons du Bal
	Lacombe
	Lucien
	Lili Marleen
8.	The Condemned and Doomed	131
	Sandra
	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
	The Condemned of Altona
	The Night Porter
	The Damned
III	Responses to Nazi Atrocity
9.	Political Resistance	147
	The Gold of Rome
	The Ice Cream Parlor
	The Shadow of Victory
	Jacob
	The Liar
	The Fiancee
	The Last Stop
	Kapo
	Samson
	Landscape After Battle
	Ashes and Diamonds
	Professor Mamlock
	Partisans of Vilna
10.	The Ambiguity of Identity	169
	Mephisto
	The Shop on Main Street
	Mr. Klein
	General Della Rovere
	The Man in the Glass Booth
	Tel Aviv--Berlin
	Bastille
11.	The New German Guilt	187
	Auschwitz Street
	The Children from Number 67
	Top Secret
	The White Rose
	The Last Five Days
	The Tin Drum
	Our Hitler
	The Confessions of Winifred Wagner
	The Inheritors
	God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
	Santa Fe
	Welcome in Vienna
	'38: Vienna Before the Fall
IV	Shaping Reality
12.	The Personal Documentary	211
	Night and Fog
	Falkenau
	One Man's War
	Return to Poland
	Sighet
	Sighet, Now ... After All These Years
	Dark Lullabies
	Shadow of Doubt
	In Dark Places
	We Were So Beloved
	A Generation Apart
	Kaddish
	Breaking the Silence
	Because of That War
	Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die?
	As if It Were Yesterday
	Weapons of the Spirit
	So Many Miracles
	Voices from the Attic
13.	From Judgment to Illumination	235
	Kitty: Return to Auschwitz
	The Sorrow and the Pity
	Special Section
	The Memory of Justice
	Hotel Terminus
	Shoah
	Notes	257
	Filmography	267
	Bibliography	277
	Index	283

Editorial Reviews

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)

Booknews

"The standard book on the Holocaust in film..." The Nation

"...this book is a key source for this area and it is excellent to have available again." Fred Davies

"Indelible Shadows is a thoroughly researched and excellently compiled book."
Maria Kornatowska, The Polish Review

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