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{en} Annette Insdorf. Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust, 2nd ed. (Cambridge - New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Abstract

"Investigates some of the profound questions raised by any attempt to create a film based on the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? ... The book not only provides sensitive readings of individual films but also analyzes more theoretical issues such as the 'truth claims' of the cinematic medium."---Publisher description.

Contents

Foreword / by Elie Wiesel -- Finding an appropriate language. The Hollywood version of the Holocaust -- Meaningful montage -- Styles of tension -- Black humor -- Narrative strategies. The Jew as child -- In hiding/onstage -- Beautiful evasions? -- The condemned and doomed -- Responses to Nazi atrocity. Political resistance -- The ambiguity of identity -- The new German guilt -- Shaping reality. The personal documentary -- From judgment to illumination -- Notes -- Filmography.