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Chaplin : The dictator and the tramp / edited by Frank Scheide and Hooman Mehran London: British Film Institute, 2004.
Call No: 81CHA SCHAuthor: Scheide, Frank ; Mehran, Hooman CorpAuthor: British Film InstitutePlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2004PhysDes: 150 p. ; 23 cmSeries: ChaplinSubject: CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) Summary: A collection of essays about Charles Chaplin (1899-1977) written by some of the world’s leading authorities on Chaplin and early film comedy. The primary focus of the volume is Chaplin’s 1940 film satire on Nazi Germany, The Great Dictator. This film has recently attracted intense interest during its wide international theatrical and DVD re-release. The Great Dictator is also the subject of a remarkable documentary, The Tramp and the Dictator, by the distinguished historian and film-maker Kevin Brownlow, who serves as adviser to this publication, and has made available research material and interviews gathered in the course of the production. [Taken from back cover]ISBN: 1844570371
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Films : a quarterly of discussion and analysis New York: Arno Press, 1968.
Call No: held Vol. 1, no. 1 (Nov. 1939)-v. 1, no. 4 (Winter 1940) - completeSource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Arno PressPubDate: 1968Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; SOUND ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; STATE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; STATE AND THE CINEMA. CANADA ; STATE AND THE CINEMA. BRAZIL ; STATE AND THE CINEMA. MEXICO ; TRADE UNIONS. USA ; POTAMKIN, HARRY ALAN ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940) ; GONE WITH THE WIND (US, Victor Fleming, 1939) ; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) ; SHCHORS (UR, Alexander Dovzhenko, 1939) ; CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY (US, Anatole Litvak, 1939) ; CITY, THE (US, Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke, 1939) ; MAISONS DE LA MISERE, LES (BE, Henri Storck, 1937) Notes: Reprint. Originally published : New York : Kamin Publishers.
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Focus on Chaplin / Donald W. McCaffrey New Jersey: Prentice Hall, [1971].
Call No: 81CHA MCCAuthor: McCaffrey, Donald W. (ed.) Source: USPlace: New JerseyPublisher: Prentice HallPubDate: [1971]PhysDes: 174 p. : ill. ; 21 cmSeries: Film FocusSubject: TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; SENNETT, MACK ; KID, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1921) ; GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925) ; GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927) ; CIRCUS, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1928) ; CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931) ; MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936) ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947) ; LIMELIGHT (US, Charles Chaplin, 1952) ISBN: 131282077Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: Introduction - Donald W. McCaffrey -- CAREER -- A brief overall view - John Montgomery -- Creating the role of Dr. Body in Casey's Court Circus - Charlie Chaplin -- Acting-directing apprenticeship with Mack Sennett - Charlie Chaplin -- WORKING METHOD -- Development of the comic story and the Tramp character - Charlie Chaplin -- What people laugh at - Charlie Chaplin -- Max Linder's and Elsie Codd's views on the working method - Louis Delluc -- A rejection of the talkies - Charlie Chaplin -- ESSAYS -- The art of Charlie Chaplin - Minnie Maddern Fiske -- Is the Charlie Chaplin vogue passing? - Harcourt Farmer -- Everybody's Language - Winston Churchill -- A reaction to the praise given to Chaplin's artistry - George Jean Nathan -- An evaulation of Chaplin's silent comedy films, 1916-36 - Donald W. McCaffrey -- REVIEWS -- Impressions of two early comedy films - Louis Delluc -- An early detailed account of the action in The Pawnshop - Gilbert Seldes -- The Kid - Francis Hackett -- The Pilgrim - Robert E. Sherwood -- With the bunk left out - Charles W. Wood -- The idea in The Gold Rush: a study of Chaplin's use of the comic technique of pathos-humor - Timothy J. Lyons -- A comparison of The Gold Rush and The General - Gerald Mast -- The Circus - Alexander Bakshy -- City Lights and Modern Times: skirmishes with romance, pathos, and social significance - Donald W. McCaffrey -- The Great Dictator - Herman G. Weinberg -- Monsieur Verdoux - Roger Manvell -- The lineage of Limelight - Walter Kerr
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GREAT DICTATOR, THE : (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940)
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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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Hollywood as historian : American film in a cultural context / edited by Peter C. Rollins Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1983.
Call No: 49:930.2 HOLAuthor: Rollins, Peter C. Source: USPlace: Lexington, Ky.Publisher: University Press of KentuckyPubDate: 1983PhysDes: x, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; FOX STUDIOS ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931) ; MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936) ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) ; WILSON (US, Henry King, 1944) ; NEGRO SOLDIER, THE (US, Frank Capra, 1944) ; SNAKE PIT (US, Anatole Litvak, 1948) ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954) ; WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (US, Mike Nichols, 1966) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; ADAPTATiONS. CONRAD, JOSEPH ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS ; [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; NATIVE LAND (US, Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand, 1942) ; CENSORSHIP. USA ; RIVER, THE (US, Lorentz Pare, 1937) Notes: Includes bibliographical references.ISBN: 0813101549 (pbk.)
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Hollywood in Havana : US cnema and revolutionary nationalism in Cuba before 1959 / Megan Feeney Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Call No: 302(73:729.1)Author: Feeney, Megan Source: USPlace: ChicagoPublisher: The University of Chicago PressPubDate: 2019PhysDes: viii, 320 pages: black and white illustrations; 23 cm.Subject: CUBA ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; CAPRA, FRANK ; DISTRIBUTION ; EXHIBITION ; FILM NOIR ; KAZAN, ELIA ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS ; WARNER BROS. ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; VIVA ZAPATA (US, Elia Kazan, 1952) ; TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, THE (US, John Huston, 1948) ; [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939) ; FACE IN THE CROWD, A (US, Elia Kazan, 1957) Summary: "From the turn of the twentieth century through the late 1950s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn, John Wayne, and Marlon Brando. In fact, Hollywood was seemingly everywhere in pre-Castro Havana, with movie theaters three to a block in places, widely circulated silver screen fanzines, and terms like “cowboy” and “gangster” entering Cuban vernacular speech. Hollywood in Havana uses this historical backdrop as the catalyst for a startling question: Did exposure to half a century of Hollywood pave the way for the Cuban Revolution of 1959?
Megan Feeney argues that the freedom fighting extolled in American World War II dramas and the rebellious values and behaviors seen in postwar film noir helped condition Cuban audiences to expect and even demand purer forms of Cuban democracy and national sovereignty. At the same time, influential Cuban intellectuals worked to translate Hollywood ethics into revolutionary rhetoric—which, ironically, led to pointed critiques and subversions of the US presence in Cuba. Hollywood in Havana not only expands our notions of how American cinema was internalized around the world—it also broadens our view of the ongoing history of US-Cuban interactions, both cultural and political." -- Back cover.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9780226593692Contents: Introduction. Looking up: Hollywood and revolutionary Cuban nationalism -- The film business that unites: early US cinema in Havana, 1897-1928 -- Teaching eyes to see: the advent of Cuban film criticism, 1928-1934 -- Our men in Havana: Hollywood and good neighborly bonds, 1934-1941 -- You are men! fight for liberty! Hollywood heroes and the pan-American bonds of World War II -- Breaking the chains: Hollywood noir in postwar Havana, 1946-1952 -- Rebel idealism: Hollywood in Havana during the Batistato, 1952-1958 -- Epilogue: the show goes on: Hollywood in Havana after 1958.
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The Hollywood social problem film : madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties / Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
Call No: 744 ROFAuthor: Roffman, Peter, 1950 ; Purdy, Jim, Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1981PhysDes: x, 364 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. USA ; DEPRESSION IN FILMS ; DRUGS IN FILMS ; MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN FILMS ; BAD GUYS ; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA ; FALLEN WOMEN IN FILMS ; DELINQUENTS IN FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; BLACKLISTING. USA ; JOURNALISTS IN FILMS ; POLITICAL PERSONALITIES IN FILMS ; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; RACIAL ISSUES IN FILMS ; RURAL LIFE IN FILMS ; WARNER BROS. ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; LANG, FRITZ ; BORZAGE, FRANK ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; GARFIELD, JOHN ; CAPRA, FRANK ; VIDOR, KING ; BLACK LEGION (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1936) ; CABIN IN THE COTTON, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1932) ; DEAD END (US, William Wyler, 1937) ; FORCE OF EVIL (US, Abraham Polonsky, 1948) ; GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (US, Gregory La Cava, 1933) ; STATE'S ATTORNEY (US, George Archainbaud, 1932) ; SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (US, Preston Sturges, 1942) ; THEY WON'T FORGET (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1937) ; THREE COMRADES (US, Frank Borzage, 1938) ; GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (US, Elia Kazan, 1947) ; I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F.B.I. (US, Gordon Douglas, 1951) ; LAWLESS, THE (US, Joseph Losey, 1950) ; LAWYER MAN (US, Wilhelm Dieterle, 1932) ; LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? (US, Frank Borzage, 1934) ; MASSACRE (US, Alan Crosland, 1933) ; MEET JOHN DOE (US, Frank Capra, 1941) ; MOUTHPIECE, THE (US, James Flood & Elliott Nugent, 1932) ; OUR DAILY BREAD (US, King Vidor, 1934) ; PINKY (US, Elia Kazan, 1949) ; PRESIDENT VANISHES, THE (US, William Wellman, 1934) ; RIFFRAFF (US, J. Walter Ruben, 1936) ; [MISTER] MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936) ; [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939) ; MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936) ; MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947) ; MORTAL STORM, THE (US, Frank Borzage, 1940) ; MY MAN GODFREY (US, Gregory La Cava, 1936) ; ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954) ; BODY AND SOUL (US, Robert Rossen, 1947) ; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; HEROES FOR SALE (US, William A. Wellman, 1933) ; I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; SALT OF THE EARTH (US, Herbert J. Biberman, 1954) ; YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (US, Fritz Lang, 1937) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 319-329; Filmography: p. 331-351ISBN: 0253127076; 0253202612 (pbk.)LON: 1763505
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Indelible shadows : film and the Holocaust / Annette Insdorf Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Call No: 744(=924) INSAuthor: Insdorf, Annette Edition: 2nd edPlace: Cambridge New YorkPublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 1989PhysDes: xix, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: GENOCIDE IN FILMS ; BRECHT, BERTOLT ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; LANZMANN, CLAUDE ; MALLE, LOUIS ; OPHULS, MARCEL ; BERGMAN, INGMAR ; IMHOOF, MARKUS ; JARVIK, LAURENCE ; LILIENTHAL, PETER ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; WERTMULLER, LINA ; PLAYING FOR TIME [TV] (US, Daniel Mann, 1980) ; WAR AND REMEMBRANCE [TV] (US, Dan Curtis, 1988-89) ; RUE HAUTE (BE/FR, Andre Ernotte & Elliot Tiber, 1976) ; SERPENT'S EGG, THE (US/GW, Ingmar Bergman, 1977) ; SOPHIE'S CHOICE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1982) ; HOTEL TERMINUS: KLAUS BARBIE, HIS LIFE AND TIMES (US, Marcel Ophuls, 1988) ; KAPO (IT/FR/YU, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1960) ; LACOMBE LUCIEN (FR/IT/GW, Louis Malle, 1974) ; DERNIER METRO, LE (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1980) ; LILI MARLEEN (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981) ; MEMORY OF JUSTICE, THE (UK/GW/US, Marcel Ophuls, 19760 ; [MISTER] MR KLEIN [M. KLEIN] (FR/IT, Joseph Losey, 1976) ; OBCHOD NA KORZE (CS, Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos, 1965) ; PASAZERKA (PL, Andrzej Munk, 1963 [prod. 1961-63]) ; PAWNBROKER, THE (US, Sidney Lumet, 1964) ; SORROW AND THE PITY, THE [CHAGRIN ET LA PITIE, LE] (FR/GW/SZ, Marcel Ophuls, 1969) ; BLECHTROMMEL, DIE (GW/FR/YU/PL, Volker Schlondorff, 1979) ; TO BE OR NOT TO BE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) ; LAGERSTRASSE AUSCHWITZ [TV] (GW, Ebbo Demant, 1979) ; GUICHETS DU LOUVRE, LES (FR, Michel Mitrani, 1974) ; BOOT IST VOLL, DAS (SZ/GGW/AU, Markus Imhoof, 1981) ; CHILDREN FROM NUMBER 67, THE [KINDER AUS NO. 67, DIE] (GW, Usch Barthelmess-Weller & Werner Meyer, 1980) ; DAMNED, THE [CADUTA DEGLI DEI, LA] (IT/GW, Luchino Visconti, 1969) ; DAVID (GW, Peter Lilienthal, 1979) ; SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985) ; NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955) ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) Notes: Includes index; Filmography: p. [267]-276; Bibliography: p. [277]-282ISBN: 0521372798; 0521378109 (pbk.)LON: 6081353
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My autobiography / Charlie Chaplin London: Bodley Head, 1964.
Call No: 81CHA CHAAuthor: Chaplin, Charlie Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Bodley HeadPubDate: 1964PhysDes: 545 p., [21] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cmSubject: CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; VANITY FAIR (US, Chester M Franklin, 1932) ; KID, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1921) ; CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931) ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; WOMAN OF PARIS, A (US, Charles Chaplin, 1923) ; GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925) ; CIRCUS, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1928) ; LIMELIGHT (US, Charles Chaplin, 1952) ; KING IN NEW YORK (US, Charles Chaplin, 1957) Notes: Includes index.LON: abn84206881; 3369279
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Screening the holocaust : cinema's images of the unimaginable / Ilan Avisar Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1988.
Call No: 744(=924) AVIAuthor: Avisar, Ilan, 1951 Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: c1988PhysDes: xi, 212 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmSeries: Jewish literature and cultureSubject: 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) ; [MISTER] MR KLEIN [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) ; DAMNED, THE [CADUTA DEGLI DEI, LA] (IT/GW, Luchino Visconti, 1969) ; DALEKA CESTA (CS, Alfred Radok, 1949) 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 BLURBNotes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [194]-200; Filmography: p. [201]-205ISBN: 0253303761; 0253204755 (pbk.)LON: 5515271
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