Hollywood and the Holocaust /
"The Holocaust has been the focus of countless films in the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and its treatment over the years has been the subject of considerable controversy. When finally permitted to portray the atrocities, filmmakers struggled with issues of fidelity to historical f...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman and Littlefield,
[2015]
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Colección: | Film and history (Lanham, Md.)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Can Hollywood get it right?
- The little tramp battles Hitler: The great dictator
- Actors versus Nazis: to be or not to be
- Hollywood fights World War II: Hitler's madman; Hitler's children; tomorrow, the world!
- Hollywood discovers the Holocaust: The diary of Anne Frank
- Hollywood judges the Germans: Judgment at Nuremberg
- Hollywood's Holocaust survivor: The pawnbroker
- The Holocaust on the horizon: Cabaret
- Hollywood Holocaust thrillers: The Odessa file; Marathon man; The boys from Brazil
- The Holocaust's non-Jewish victims: Sophie's choice
- Choiceless choice: Enemies, a love story and triumph of the spirit
- Spielberg invents the Holocaust: Schindler's list
- Moral ambiguity in the Holocaust: Mother night and The grey zone
- White lies: Life is beautiful and Jakob the liar
- The Nazis' successors: Apt pupil
- Mutant Holocaust survivors, or the anti-American sin of pessimism: X-men
- Kids befriending kids in the Holocaust: The boy in the striped pajamas
- Shagging Nazis and other post-war German adventures: The reader
- No sheep to the slaughter: Defiance
- Cartoon Jewish revenge: Inglourious basterds
- Conclusion: Where do we go from here?