Table of Contents

Part I. Finding an Appropriate Language: 1. The Hollywood version of the Holocaust; 2. Meaningful montage; 3. Styles of tension; 4. Black humor; Part II. Narrative Strategies: 5. The Jew as child; 6. In hiding/onstage; 7. Beautiful evasions?; 8. The condemned and doomed; Part III. Responses to Nazi Atrocity: 9. Political resistance; 10. The ambiguity of identity; 11. The new German guilt; Part IV. Shaping Reality: 12. The personal documentary; 13. From judgment to illumination; Part V. Third Edition Update: 14. The Holocaust as genre; 15. Rediscoveries; 16. Rescuers in fiction films; 17. The ironic touch; 18. Dysfunction as distortion: the Holocaust survivor on screen and stage; 19. Documentaries of return.

Promotional Information

Includes five additional chapters that cover recent trends, as well as rediscoveries of motion pictures.

Reviews

"The standard book on the Holocaust in film..." The Nation "...this book is a key source for this area and it is excellent to have available again." Fred Davies "Indelible Shadows is a thoroughly researched and excellently compiled book." Maria Kornatowska, The Polish Review