Comedy, avant-garde, scandal
Subtitle: remembering the Holocaust after the end of history
By: Andrew S. Gross, Susanne Rohr
Contributors: Rohr, Susanne, 1958-
Series: American studies -- v. 183; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 183.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9783825357269
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art; Influence; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Other titles: Remembering the Holocaust after the end of history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-204).
Table of contents: title: 1. Is the Holocaust an American memory?; title: 2. Literature, Holocaust fiction in the 1990s: laughter, memory, place; title: 3. Visual arts, transgression as commemoration: art's ritualized encounter with the "limits of representation"; title: 4. Film, if life had only been beautiful: Radu Mihaileanu's Train of Life and the embarrassments of "Holocaust comedies"; title: 5. Architecture, Daniel Libeskind's world trade center project: architecture, (inter)nationalism, and the politics of moral consensus.