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This book charts how visual culture at the new millennium has
engaged with the Holocaust and provides insight into a number of
significant trends in the production, distribution and reception of
recent works about the Nazi genocide.
Recent representations of the Holocaust have increasingly required
us to think beyond rigid demarcations of nation and history, medium
and genre. Holocaust Intersections sets out to investigate the many
points of conjunction between these categories in recent images of
genocide. The book examines transnational constellations in
Holocaust cinema and television in Europe disclosing instances of
border-crossing and boundary-troubling at levels of production,
distribution and reception. It highlights intersections between
film genres, through intertextuality and pastiche, and the
deployment of audio-visual Holocaust memory and testimony. Finally,
the volume addresses connections between the Holocaust and other
histories of genocide in the visual culture of the new millennium,
engaging with the questions of transhistoricity and intercultural
perspective. Drawing on a wide variety of different media - from
cinema and television to installation art and the internet - and on
the most recent scholarship on responses to the Holocaust, the
volume aims to update our understanding of how visual culture looks
at the Holocaust and genocide today.
From intimate portrayals of ordinary Germans and Nazi leaders to
immersive spectacles of war and defeat, this study argues that,
since 1990, German film has focused on portraying the Nazi past
from within. How has the German image of the Nazi past changed
since the reunification of East and West Germany? And what role
have cinema and television played in this process? This intriguing
study argues that since 1990, the two media haveturned toward inner
German experiences of the Third Reich. From intimate portrayals of
ordinary Germans and Nazi leaders to immersive spectacles of war
and defeat, German film has focused on portraying the Nazi past
from within. Stimulating and accessible, combining close readings
with broad contextualization, this monograph shows how profoundly
cinema and television have transformed collective remembrance of
the Third Reich. The first publication on the topic to embrace the
two decades since 1990, it provides a comprehensive account of
cinema and television productions, presenting case studies of
national film events such as Stalingrad (1993) and Downfall (2004),
andassessing the influence of international blockbusters from
Schindler's List (1993) to The Reader (2008). Targeted at a wide
readership, the book will be a central reference point for
university teachers offering courses on German film or cultural
memory, will give guidance to both undergraduate and postgraduate
students, and will make a lasting impact on research in the field
of German screen cultures. Axel Bangert holds a doctorate from the
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge.
Previously a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge,
he is an Adjunct Professor at New York University Berlin where he
teaches German Cinema Studies.
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