Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Studies in Jewish Civilization
Angaben zur Quelle:
17 (2007) 39-58
Keywords:
Jews
;
Motion pictures
;
Jews in motion pictures
;
Jews History 1939-1945
Abstract:
Advocates a broader approach than that of writers who focus on what Jewish individuals in Hollywood should have done and what their films should have said. Combines industrial, organizational, cultural, production, and political history to explore why Hollywood dealt with Nazism and the Holocaust indirectly. Hollywood's oblique depiction of antisemitism reflects the use of popular contemporary genres, a desire to reach non-Jewish as well as Jewish audiences, and the effect of potential and actual political pressures on the part of the American censorship board and possible banning by foreign governments. Marketing techniques prepared Jewish audiences to understand allusions to antisemitism that were not spelled out in the films. Discusses the complex Jewish identity of the movie moguls and the fact that other Jews, e.g. refugees from Hitler, also worked on their films.
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