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), 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 closer to our own times.
Alan Mintz also addresses the question of how Americans will
shape the memory of the Holocaust in the future, concluding with
observations on the possibilities and limitations of what is
emerging as the major resource for the shaping of Holocaust
memory--videotaped survivor testimony. "Popular Culture and the
Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America" examines some of the
influences behind the broad and deep changes in American
consciousness and the social forces that permitted the Holocaust to
move from the margins to the center of American discourse.
"Mintz's insights give pause for thought on matters of great
interest to educators, parents, and the Jewish community as a
whole, in addition to scholars in a range of fields, including
literary studies, American studies, film studies, and popular
culture as well as Holocaust studies."--Naomi Sokoloff, University
of Washington
"The questions and issues Mintz raises throughout his book take
the study of these texts to a sophisticated yet sensible new level.
Mintz challenges the assumption that there are automatic lessons to
be learned from such memory, or that there can be any redemption in
such memory. These are crucial insights which deserve the widest
possible audience."--James E. Young, University of Massachusetts at
Amherst (author of "The Texture of Memory and At Memory's
Edge.")
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