Language:
German
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Transversal; Zeitschrift für Jüdische Studien
Angaben zur Quelle:
10,2 (2009) 79-96
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Humor
Abstract:
Discusses representation of the Holocaust, arguing that it necessarily circles about an unrepresentable core. The comic hero is "an artist of life", who survives as an actor or a player in a game or fantasy. But a "Holocaust comedy" cannot ignore the tragic core; at some point the comic is suspended, either by a glimpse of the fatal reality or by driving it to such an extreme that it becomes horrifying.
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