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Call No: 744(=924)(73) GON
Author: Gonshak, Henry
Place: Lanham, Maryland
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
PubDate: [2015]
PhysDes: x, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series: Film and History
Subject: 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 Introduction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349) and index
Contents: 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?

Call No: 744(=924) AVI
Author: Avisar, Ilan, 1951
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: c1988
PhysDes: xi, 212 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
Series: Jewish literature and culture
Subject: GENOCIDE IN FILMS; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; NAZIS IN FILMS; PONTECORVO, GILLO; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ULICA GRANICZNA (PL, Aleksander Ford, 1948); DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, THE (US, Geoarge Stevens, 1959); ...A PATY JEZDEC JE STRACH (CS, Zbynek Brynych, 1964); OSTATNI ETAP (PL, Wanda Jakubowska, 1948); OBCHOD NA KORZE (CS, Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos, 1965); SHOP ON MAIN STREET, THE (CS, Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos, 1965); TRANSPORT Z RAJE (CS, Zbynek Brynych, 1962); KAPO (IT/FR/YU, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1960); [MONSIEUR] M. KLEIN (FR/IT, Joseph Losey, 1976); NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955); NIGHT AND FOG (FR, Alain Resnais, 1995); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940); CADUTA DEGLI DEI, LA (IT/GW, Luchino Visconti, 1969); DAMNED, THE (IT/GW, Luchino Visconti, 1969); DALEKA CESTA (CS, Alfred Radok, 1949); GIARDINO DEI FINZI-CONTINI, IL (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1970); GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, THE (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1970)
Summary: "Over the past four decades filmmakers have struggled with the task of depicting the atrocities of the Holocaust - the unimaginable brutalities of the Nazis and the incredible suffering of their victims. Avisar bases his discussion of these filmic efforts on the assumption that the Holocaust was a unique and unprecedented historical experience and that as such it poses special problems for those, particularly artists, who seek to reflect upon this historical event. He disagrees with theorists who believe that art cannot deal with the Holocaust in a meaningful way. This study examines how cinematic art meets the challenge of dealing with the extraordinary nature of the Holocaust. Avisar uses the concepts of representation, presentation, and comprehension to analyze a select number of Holocaust films. The cinematic medium offers a wide range of artistic visions of historical events. Avisar combines theoretical concepts peculiar to the nature of cinema with arguments on the uniqueness of Hitler's Final Solution in presenting detailed analyses of such remarkable films as Night and Fog, The Damned, The Great Dictator, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Shop on Main Street, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, and Mr. Klein." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [194]-200; Filmography: p. [201]-205
ISBN: 0253303761; 0253204755 (pbk.)
LON: 5515271

Call No: 81SHE WIN
Author: Winters, Shelley
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Ballantine
PubDate: 1981, c1980
PhysDes: 500 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports ; 18cm
Subject: WINTERS, SHELLEY; ACTORS; STEVENS, GEORGE; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY; GREAT GATSBY, THE (US, Elliott Nugent, 1949); NIGHT OF THE HUNTER THE (US, Charles Laughton, 1955); DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, THE (US, Geoarge Stevens, 1959); POSEIDON ADVENTURE, THE (US, Ronald Neame, 1972); HARPER (US, Jack Smight, 1966)
Summary: The book dealswith the rise of Shelley Winters from a small starlet to the winner of two oscars, and a star of the Broadway stage. It also deals with her friendships with Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, and Howard Hughes
ISBN: 0345295064
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006