Reflects on the Europeanization of Holocaust memory, i.e. the formation of a common European memory of the Holocaust, using six films as a case study: the German-French-Polish co-production "Europa, Europa" by Agnieszka Holland; the German films "Aimée and Jaguar" by Max Färberb…
Is a common European Holocaust memory possible? The author approaches this question by analyzing Polish and German cinema after 1989, and the public debates on the past that have surrounded the filmic narratives. Of all media, cinema has exerted the broadest impact in the format…
Reflects on the Europeanization of Holocaust memory, i.e. the formation of a common European memory of the Holocaust, using six films as a case study: the German-French-Polish co-production "Europa, Europa" by Agnieszka Holland; the German films "Aimée and Jaguar" by Max Färberb…
Is a common European Holocaust memory possible? The author approaches this question by analyzing Polish and German cinema after 1989, and the public debates on the past that have surrounded the filmic narratives. Of all media, cinema has exerted the broadest impact in the format…
Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Deb…
"Discusses the transcultural uses of Holocaust memory in literature, cinema and theory in the French-speaking world from the postwar years to contemporary times. Examines the political force and ethical perils of complicity and practices of historical remembrance"-- "Since Worl…
"Discusses the transcultural uses of Holocaust memory in literature, cinema and theory in the French-speaking world from the postwar years to contemporary times. Examines the political force and ethical perils of complicity and practices of historical remembrance"-- "Since Worl…
Focusing on work by both celebrated and unknown Soviet directors and screenwriters, this is the first book written about all Soviet narrative films dealing with the Holocaust from 1938 to 1991. In addition to studying the completed films, it analyzes the projects that were banne…