Holocaust Representations in History: An Introduction (Perspectives on the Holocaust)
by: Daniel H. Magilow (Author),Lisa Silverman(Author)
Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date: 28 Nov. 2019
Language:English
Print Length:240 pages
ISBN-10:1350091804
ISBN-13:9781350091801
Book Description
How the Holocaust is depicted and memorialized is key to our understanding of the atrocity and its impact. Holocaust Representations in History explores this in detail through 18 carefully selected case studies dating from the immediate aftermath of the genocide to the present day. Daniel H. Magilow and Lisa Silverman examine film, drama, literature, photography, visual art, television, graphic novels, memorials, and video games as they discuss the major themes and issues that underpin the chronicling of the Holocaust. Each chapter is focused on a critical question or debate in Holocaust history, while the case studies themselves include well-known, commercially successful, and canonical works about the Holocaust, such as the film Shoah and Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, as well as controversial examples that have drawn accusations of profaning the memory of the genocide. This 2nd edition adds to the mosaic of representation, with new chapters analysing poetry in the wake of the Holocaust and video games from the here and now. This unique volume provides an unmatched survey of key and controversial Holocaust representations and is of vital importance to anyone wanting to understand the subject and its complexities.
About the Author
Review In this readable volume, Daniel H. Magilow and Lisa Silverman analyze the key texts that have taught the world about the Holocaust, from The Diary of Anne Frank to Claude Lanzmann's Shoah to the video game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. In clear and jargon-free prose, they show that each of these important books, films, and works of art were shaped by the historical moment in which they were produced, and this meant that some aspects of the story were emphasized while others were left out. The lesson is quite an important one: what we know of this horrific event is mediated by present concerns, and as such, evolves with time. Once the lesson is taken to heart, you'll never read these canonical texts the same way again. - --Lisa Leff, Professor of History, American University, USAThe authors have modeled an unusual and provocative approach to how representations of the Holocaust can be studied and proactively used. This book is an excellent interdisciplinary statement on the narrative challenges of the Holocaust to art, film, literature and memorialisation. A must-use text of close readings for teachers and student which deserves its long-term place in the field. - --Simone Gigliotti, Senior Lecturer in Holocaust Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
About the Author Daniel H. Magilow is Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. He is the author of The Photography of Crisis: The Photo Essays of Weimar Germany (2012), editor of In Her Father's Eyes: A Childhood Extinguished by the Holocaust (2008) and It Will Yet Be Heard: A Polish Rabbi's Witness of the Shoah and Survival (2019). Lisa Silverman is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. She is the author of Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars (2012), the co-editor, along with Deborah Holmes, of Austrian Studies 24: Jews, Jewish Difference and Austrian Culture: Literary and Historical Perspectives (2016) and Interwar Vienna: Culture between Tradition and Modernity (2009), and co-editor, along with Arijit Sen, of Making Place: Space and Embodiment in the City (2014).
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