TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gonshak,Henry
TI  - Hollywood and the Holocaust
T2  - Film and History Series
SN  - 9781442252240
AV  - PN1995.9.H53G66 2015 
U1  - 791.43/658 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
KW  - Motion pictures - United States - History - 21st century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Can Hollywood Get It Right? -- 1 The Little Tramp Battles Hitler -- 2 Actors versus Nazis -- 3 Hollywood Fights World War II -- 4 Hollywood Discovers the Holocaust -- 5 Hollywood Judges the Germans -- 6 Hollywood's Holocaust Survivor -- 7 The Holocaust on the Horizon -- 8 Hollywood Holocaust Thrillers -- 9 The Holocaust's Non-Jewish Victims -- 10 Choiceless Choice -- 11 Spielberg Reinvents the Holocaust -- 12 Moral Ambiguity in the Holocaust -- 13 White Lies -- 14 The Nazis' Successors -- 15 Mutant Holocaust Survivors, or the Anti-American Sin of Pessimism -- 16 Kids Befriending Kids in the Holocaust -- 17 Shagging Nazis and Other Postwar German Adventures -- 18 No Sheep to the Slaughter -- 19 Cartoon Jewish Revenge -- Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Index -- About the Author
N2  - 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the WWII's end and the beginning of the general public's awareness of Holocaust atrocities. This book offers an important look at Hollywood's ongoing representations of the Holocaust aimed at a general readership not usually addressed by volumes on this subject. This book is a study of the portrayal of the Holocaust in Hollywood films from the World War II era to the present. It includes chapters on thirty films, arranged chronologically, beginning in 1940 with Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator and concluding with Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film InglouriousBasterds.    The book's introduction provides an initial discussion of Hollywood Holocaust movies and their enormous influence on public perceptions of the Shoah; what standards should be adopted to judge such movies; and whether Hollywood, given its commercial focus, is capable of depicting the Holocaust accurately. The book also considers whether comedy can be an effective method of portraying the Holocaust and examines the American public's ongoing fascination with the Holocaust and other related issues
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