Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film [electronic resource] /
Boswell, M.author.
Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might play an important role in shaping our understanding of the Nazi genocide and what it means to be human.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Poetry. Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965) and other poems -- W.D. Snodgrass, The fuehrer bunker (1995) -- Popular music. American punk: Ramones, Ramones (1976) -- English punk: Sex pistols, Never mind the bollocks, Here's The sex pistols (1977) and The great rock 'n' roll swindle (1979) -- Post-punk: Joy division, Closer (1980) -- Post-punk rock: Manic Street preachers, The holy Bible (1994) -- Film. Night and fog (Alain Resnais, 1955) -- Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) -- The grey zone (Tim Blake Nelson, 2001) -- Inglourious basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009).
Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might play an important role in shaping our understanding of the Nazi genocide and what it means to be human.
Motion pictures-History.
Europe-History.
History, Modern.
Civilization-History.
Music.
European literature.
Film History.
European History.
Modern History.
Cultural History.
Music.
European Literature.