Screening the Holocaust: cinema's images of the unimaginable
TitleScreening the Holocaust: cinema's images of the unimaginable
Author
Call number791.430909358/0004
Object number03872
Place of publicationBloomington, Indiana, United States
PublisherIndiana University Press
Year of publication
1988
Physical description212p.,index, bibliography
MaterialBook
Series titleJewish literature and culture
ISBN0253204755
Description
Deals with specific films on the Holocaust as well as with a general thesis concerning the cinematic treatment of the Judeocide. He concludes that the Holocaust has been somewhat avoided by filmmakers due to the event's staggering moral emptiness. Documentary efforts may have succeeded somewhat better.