edited and with an introduction by Barbie Zelizer.
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Athlone,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2001.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (vii, 364 pages) :
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illustrations, portraits
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: On Visualizing the Holocaust; HIGH CULTURE, LOW CULTURE, AND THE DOMAINS OF THE VISUAL; In Plain Sight; Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with Adorno; ART; Deadly Historians: Boltanski's Intervention in Holocaust Historiography; Lost in Translation: Clement Greenberg, Anselm Kiefer, and the Subject of History; TELEVISION AND VIDEO; The Man in the Glass Box: Watching the Eichmann Trial on American Television; Tele-Suffering and Testimony in the Dot Com Era; FILM; Schindler's List Is Not Shoah: Second Commandment, Popular Modernism, and Public Memory.
Hybrid Victims: Second-Generation Israelis Screen the HolocaustARTIFACTS; Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin: The Uncanny Arts of Memorial Architecture; "From Shore to Shore": The Holocaust, Clandestine Immigration, and Israeli Heritage Museums; PHOTOGRAPHS; Surviving Images: Holocaust Photographs and the Work of Postmemory; Gender and Atrocity: Women in Holocaust Photographs; THE BODY; The Shrunken Head of Buchenwald: Icons of Atrocity at Nuremberg; The Tattooed Jew; INTERNET AND THE WEB; Clicking on Hitler: The Virtual Holocaust @Home; Analogs of Loss: Vera Frenkel's Body Missing.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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A book that looks at both the traditional and the unconventional ways in which the holocaust has been visually represented. The purpose of this volume is to enhance our understanding of the visual representation of the Holocaust - in films, television, photographs, art and museum installations and cultural artifacts - and to examine the ways in which these have shaped our consciousness. The areas covered include the Eichman Trial as covered on American television, the impact of Schindler's List, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Isreali Heritage Museums, Women and Holocaust Photography, Interne.