Language:
English
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
History and Memory; Studies in Representation of the Past
Angaben zur Quelle:
2,1 (1990) 111-129
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
Abstract:
States that films dealing with history represent a complex balance between two referents: one appealing to the historical knowledge or memory of the viewer, the other taking liberties with historical facts for the sake of inventive storytelling. Discusses the iconography of the Nazi era which has evolved, producing the same images time and again. Expresses the fear that distinctions between object and representation are breaking down - history is cut loose from experience and memory. Discusses the American TV film "Holocaust" as an example of "history made in Hollywood", but also gives three examples of alternative, more acceptable, ways of presenting history on film - Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah", Alexander Kluge's "Die Patriotin", and Hans Jürgen Syberberg's "Hitler".
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