Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America
The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans, yet rather than receding, this event has assumed a greater significance in the American consciousness with the passage of time. As a window into the process whereby the Holocaust has been appropriated in American culture, Hollywood movies are particularly luminous. Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America examines reactions to three films: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), The Pawnbroker (1965),...
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The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans, yet rather than receding, this event has assumed a greater significance in the American consciousness with the passage of time. As a window into the process by which the Holocaust has been appropriated into American culture, Hollywood movies are particularly luminous. Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America examines reactions to three films: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), The Pawnbroker (1965), and Schindler's List (1992), and considers what those reactions reveal about the place of the Holocaust in the American mind, and how those films have shaped the popular perception of the Holocaust. It also considers the difference in the reception of the two earlier films when they first appeared in the 1960s and retrospective evaluations of them from the late twentieth century. Booknews Protesting that he is a specialist neither in Holocaust studies nor American studies, Mintz (Hebrew literature, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City) speaks as a cultural critic and an American Jew who is concerned for the future of Holocaust remembrance. In his four lectures, he applies to the US what he has learned looking at Israeli accounts. The CiP data shows a different ISBN. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface1From Silence to Salience32Two Models in the Study of Holocaust Representation363The Holocaust at the Movies: Three Studies in Reception85Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)85The Pawnbroker (1965)107Schindler's List (1993)1254The Future of Memorialization159Notes187Index201
\ BooknewsProtesting that he is a specialist neither in Holocaust studies nor American studies, Mintz (Hebrew literature, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City) speaks as a cultural critic and an American Jew who is concerned for the future of Holocaust remembrance. In his four lectures, he applies to the US what he has learned looking at Israeli accounts. The CiP data shows a different ISBN. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
