Popular culture and the shaping of Holocaust memory in America
By: Alan Mintz.
Series: Samuel & Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies; Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Judgment at Nuremberg (Motion picture); Pawnbroker (Motion picture); Schindler's list (Motion picture); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Foreign public opinion, American; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures; Jews -- United States -- Attitudes; Public opinion -- United States
Description: "The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans, yet rather than receding, this event has assumed a greater significance in the American consciousness with the passage of time. As a window into the process by which the Holocaust has been appropriated into American culture, Hollywood movies are particularly luminous.

Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America examines reactions to three films: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), The Pawnbroker (1965), and Schindler's List (1992), and considers what those reactions reveal about the place of the Holocaust in the American mind, and how those films have shaped the popular perception of the Holocaust.

It also considers the difference in the reception of the two earlier films when they first appeared in the 1960s and retrospective evaluations of them from the late twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-200) index.