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Hollywood and the holocaust / Henry Gonshak Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, [2015].
Call No: 744(=924)(73) GONAuthor: Gonshak, Henry Place: Lanham, MarylandPublisher: Rowman & LittlefieldPubDate: [2015]PhysDes: x, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSeries: Film and HistorySubject: WORLD WAR II FILMS ; WORLD WAR II FILMS. USA ; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA ; JEWS IN FILMS. USA ; JEWS AND THE CINEMA ; HOLOCAUST IN FILMS ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; TO BE OR NOT TO BE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) ; HITLER'S CHILDREN (US, Edward Dymtryk, 1943) ; DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, THE (US, Geoarge Stevens, 1959) ; JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG (US, Stanley Kramer, 1961) ; PAWNBROKER, THE (US, Sidney Lumet, 1964) ; CABARET (US, Bob Fosse, 1972) ; ODESSA FILE, THE (UK/GW, Ronald Neame, 1974) ; MARATHON MAN (US, John Schlesinger, 1976) ; BOYS FROM BRAZIL, THE (US, Franklin J. Schaffner, 1978) ; SOPHIE'S CHOICE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1982) ; ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY (US, Paul Mazursky, 1989) ; TRIUMPH OF THE SPIRIT (US, Robert M. Young, 1989) ; SCHINDLER'S LIST (US, Steven Spielberg, 1993) ; MOTHER NIGHT (US, Keith Gordon, 1996) ; GREY ZONE, THE (US, Tim Blake Nelson, 2001) Summary: "Looking at a wide range of films in various genres that are representative of the evolution of Hollywood's depictions of the Jewish Holocaust and to examine the American public's perspective of the Holocaust" -- from the IntroductionNotes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349) and indexContents: Introduction: Can Hollywood get it right? -- The little tramp battles Hitler: The great dictator -- Actors versus Nazis: to be or not to be -- Hollywood fights World War II: Hitler's madman; Hitler's children; tomorrow, the world! -- Hollywood discovers the Holocaust: The diary of Anne Frank -- Hollywood judges the Germans: Judgment at Nuremberg -- Hollywood's Holocaust survivor: The pawnbroker -- The Holocaust on the horizon: Cabaret -- Hollywood Holocaust thrillers: The Odessa file; Marathon man; The boys from Brazil -- The Holocaust's non-Jewish victims: Sophie's choice -- Choiceless choice: Enemies, a love story and triumph of the spirit -- Spielberg reinvents the Holocaust: Schindler's list -- Moral ambiguity in the Holocaust: Mother night and The grey zone -- White lies: Life is beautiful and Jakob the liar -- The Nazis' successors: Apt pupil -- Mutant Holocaust survivors, or the anti-American sin of pessimism: X-men -- Kids befriending kids in the Holocaust: The boy in the striped pajamas -- Shagging Nazis and other post-war German adventures: The reader -- No sheep to the slaughter: Defiance -- Cartoon Jewish revenge: Inglourious basterds -- Conclusion: Where do we go from here?
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HOLOCAUST : (US, Marvin J. Chomsky, 1978)
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Holocaust in Film News (November-December 1979) vol.36 iss.5 p.34
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HOLOCAUST IN FILMS
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The Italian cinema book / edited by Peter Bondanella London: British Film Institute ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Call No: 71(45) ITAAuthor: Bondanella, Peter Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film Institute ; Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2014PhysDes: xi, 380 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmSubject: ITALY ; ITALY IN FILMS ; NEOREALISM ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA. ITALY ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. ITALY ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SCRIPTWRITING ; HOLOCAUST IN FILMS ; FASHION AND THE CINEMA ; GANGSTER FILMS ; WESTERNS. ITALY ; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. ITALY ; BLASETTI, ALESSANDRO ; CAMERINI, MARIO ; DE SICA, VITTORIO ; LOREN, SOPHIA ; LOLLOGRIGIDA, GINA ; MONICELLI, MARIO ; MORETTI, NANNI Summary: "The Italian Cinema Book is an essential guide to the most important historical, aesthetic and cultural aspects of Italian cinema, from 1895 to the present day. With contributions from 39 leading international scholars, the book is structured around six chronologically organised sections [...] Acutely aware of the contemporary 'rethinking' of Italian cinema history, Peter Bondanella has brought together a diverse range of essays which represent the cutting edge of Italian film theory and criticism." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographic references and index -- "A BFI book published by Palgrave Macmillan." - title page.ISBN: 9781844574049Contents: Introduction / Peter Bondanella; PART ONE THE SILENT ERA -- Silent Italian Cinema: An International Story / Giorgio Bertellini -- The Beginnings of Film Stardom and the Print Media of Divismo / John P. Welle -- The Diva Film: Context, Actresses, Issues / Angela Dalle Vacche -- Italian Silent Film Genres: Comics, Serials, Historical Epics and Strongmen / Jacqueline Reich; PART TWO THE BIRTH OF THE TALKIES AND THE FASCIST ERA -- Fascism and Italian Cinema / David Forgacs -- Italian Matinee Idols in the Era of the Talkies / Marcia Landy -- The First Comedy, Italian Style: Blasetti, Camerini and De Sica / Vito Zagarrio -- Censorship from the Fascist Period to the Present / Guido Bonsaver; PART THREE POSTWAR CINEMATIC CULTURE – REALISM AND BEYOND -- Neorealism and Left-wing Culture / Stephen Gundle -- Cityscapes and Cinematic Space / Mark Shiel -- Dislocated Spaces for New Thought: Paths of Nomadic Wandering in Neorealist Film and Literature / Torunn Haaland -- Seeing Anew: Children in Italian Cinema, 1944 to the Present / Giovanna De Luca -- Italian Cinema from the Perspective of Female Friendship / Danielle Hipkins --The Maggiorata or Sweater Girl of the 1950s: Mangano, Lollobrigida, Loren / Pauline Small -- Hollywood and Italy: Industries and Fantasies / Robert S. C. Gordon; PART FOUR THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN CINEMA -- Material Dreams: Costume and Couture Italian Style: From Hollywood on the Tiber to the Italian Screen / Reka Buckley --Italian Film Music / M. Thomas Van Order -- Production around 1960 / Christopher Wagstaff -- The Muscleman Peplum: From Le fatiche di Ercole (1958) to Hercules and the Princess of Troy (1965) / Jon Solomon -- Mondo Cane and the Invention of the Shockumentary / Gino Moliterno -- Spaghetti Westerns and Their Audience / Flavia Brizio-Skov -- Chronicles of a Hastened Modernisation: The Cynical Eye of the Commedia all'italiana / Remi Fournier Lanzoni -- The Political Film / Gaetana Marrone -- The Giallo and the Spaghetti Nightmare Film / Mikel J. Koven -- European Co-productions and Artistic Collaborations: The Italian Response to the Hollywood Studio System / Jean A. Gili -- How the Italians Happened to Cherish and Then to Disdain Their Cinema / Pierre Sorlin; PART FIVE AN AGE OF CRISIS, TRANSITION AND CONSOLIDATION -- Scriptwriting, Italian Style: Scriptwriting for Fellini / Gianfranco Angelucci -- Modern Mob Movies: Twenty Years of Gangsters on the Italian Screen / Dana Renga -- Screening Terrorism: Cinematic Portrayals of the Italian Armed Struggle / Giancarlo Lombardi -- Italian Cinema and Holocaust Memory / Millicent Marcus -- Italian National Cinema: The Cinepanettone / Alan O'Leary -- Stars and Masculinity in Contemporary Italian Cinema / Catherine O'Rawe -- Women behind the Camera: New Horizons in Contemporary Cinema / Flavia Laviosa; PART SIX NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ITALIAN CINEMA -- Italian Cinema in the Post-national Age / Laura Rascaroli -- Post-colonial Theory and Italy's `Multicultural' Cinema / Aine O'Healy -- Italian Film Genres and Mario Bava / Mary P. Wood -- The Unwanted Guest: Some Remarks on Italian Cinema's Love Affair with Psychoanalysis / Fabio Vighi -- Fellini and Contemporary International Cinema / Peter Bondanella -- The Heritage of the Past and New Frontiers for the History of Italian Cinema / Gian Piero Brunetta.
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The Jew in American cinema / Patricia Erens Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 1984.
Call No: 757-054(=924) EREAuthor: Erens, Patricia Source: USPlace: Bloomington INPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1984PhysDes: 455 p.; 22cmSubject: JEWS IN FILMS. USA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; NAZIS IN FILMS ; SOCIAL GROUPS IN FILMS ; ISRAEL ; HOLOCAUST IN FILMS Summary: Patricia Erens looks at over 800 feature films , produced by either Hollywood or independent studios, from the early primitive years to the present, and presenting Jewish characters or themes. She looks at all types of film: melodramas, dramas, comedies, biblical epics, and gangster films, and identifies persistent Jewish stereotypes and themes:which constantly appear in these film: the benevolent physician, the neurotic, or prodigal son, the scheming merchant, or the Jewish ugly duckling. She looks at individual films, producers, writers, and actors, and shows how the values of the wide American community and those of the Jewish community are reflected in their work.Films such as "Ben Hur", "The Pawn Broker", "The Jazz Singer" or "The diary Of Anne Frank," to name a few ,are examinedISBN: 0253145007ID2: 27
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NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST, THE : (UK, ?, 1985)
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The persistence of history : cinema, television, and the modern event / edited by Vivian Sobchak New York: Routledge, 1996.
Call No: 408.1 PERAuthor: Sobchak, Vivian Carol Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1996PhysDes: 265 pages ; 24 cmSeries: AFI film readersSubject: TELEVISION ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORY AND TV ; THEORY ; KING, RODNEY ; TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1923) ; TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1956) ; TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (UK, Phil Mulloy, 1996) ; JFK (US, Oliver Stone, 1991) ; HOLOCAUST (US, Marvin J. Chomsky, 1978) ; ANDREI RUBLEV (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1969) ; SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985) ; SCHINDLER'S LIST (US, Steven Spielberg, 1993) ; MORRIS, ERROL Summary: "The Persistence of History examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation. Exploring a range of film and video texts, from The Ten Commandments to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Errol Morris to Oliver Stone's JFK and Spielberg's Schindler's List, the volume questions the appropriate forms of media for making the incoherence and fragmentation of contemporary history intelligible" -- PublisherNotes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 0415910846Contents: Introduction: History Happens / Vivian Sobchack -- 1. The Modernist Event / Hayden White -- 2. Cinematic Shots: The Narration of Violence / Janet Staiger -- 3. Historical Consciousness and the Viewer: Who Killed Vincent Chin? / Bill Nichols -- 4. "I'll See It When I Believe It": Rodney King and the Prison-House of Video / Frank P. Tomasulo -- 5. Antimodernism as Historical Representation in a Consumer Culture: Cecil B. Demille's The Ten Commandments, 1923, 1956, 1993 / Sumiko Higashi -- 6. Modernism and the Narrative of Nation in JFK / Robert Burgoyne -- 7. Andrei Rublev: The Medieval Epic as Post-Utopian History / Denise J. Youngblood -- 8. Subject Positions, Speaking Positions: From Holocaust, Our Hitler, and Heimat to Shoah and Schindler's List / Thomas Elsaesser -- 9. Historical Ennui, Feminist Boredom / Patrice Petro -- 10. The Future of the Past: Film and the Beginnings of Postmodern History / Robert A. Rosenstone. -- 11. Interrotroning History: Errol Morris and the Documentary of the Future / Shawn Rosenheim -- 12. The Professors of History / Dana Polan. -- Contributors -- Index
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Prism of suffering in The Australian [Review] (03/11/2012) p.16
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SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST : [TV] (US, 1983)
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ZOMBI HOLOCAUST : IT, Frank Martin (Marino Girolami), 1980
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