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.
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