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{en} Ilan Avisar. Screening the Holocaust: Cinema's Images of the Unimaginable. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1988.

Abstract

"Discusses the difficulties in dealing with the Holocaust artistically, looks at a variety of Holocaust films, including documentaries, and assesses their effectiveness in handling the subject."--Publisher description.

Contents

The photographic image and cinematic documentation -- The discontents of film narrative -- Stylistic approaches to the representation of the Holocaust on the screen: the Czech cinema -- The Hollywood film and the presentation of the Jewish catastrophe -- Chaplin's The Great Dictator -- Modernist and post-modernist comprehensions of the Nazi terror and inhumanity.