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From Nuremberg to Hollywood : the Holocaust and the courtroom in American fictive film

Title
From Nuremberg to Hollywood : the Holocaust and the courtroom in American fictive film / James Jordan.
Author
Jordan, James (James Alexander)
Publication
  • London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2016.
  • ©2016

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Description
245 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"From Nuremberg to Hollywood explores the evolving relationship between the act of bearing witness to the Holocaust in the courtroom, and how this is perceived and imagined by American film. The book provides a cultural history of the intersection of the courtroom and the Holocaust in American film from 1944-2008, using case studies to question the ever-changing relationship between testimony, history, memory, truth, and film. It deconstructs the accepted notion of the Holocaust as being an event at the limits of the imagination. The book is divided into two sections that are delimited by the two real-life courtroom proceedings which have had the greatest influence on American film's representation of the Holocaust: the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46 and the Eichmann trial in 1961. The methodology is to evaluate the filmic trials by comparison with the real-life trials on which they are based, and then to place these films and trials within their broader social context. From Nuremberg to Hollywood asks questions of the spectator, both on and off screen: How does one witness such events and then how does one bear witness in the form of a credible narrative? How is this presented on screen? In doing so, the book seeks to understand how one of the most horrific and chaotic of events of the 20th century is contained and controlled by the strict demands of the courtroom and the courtroom film genre." -- Publisher's website.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Trials, litigation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-229) and index.
Contents
André de Toth's None shall escape (1944) : bearing withness to the Holocaust in the courtroom before liberation, before Nuremberg -- After Nuremberg, 1946-1961 : film within film in The stranger (1946), Sealed verdict (1948), Verboten! (1959) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) -- From out of the shadows : Operation Eichman (1961), QB VII (1974) and The man in the glass booth (1975) -- The fallibility of memory and the return of the flashback : Music box (1989) and Perry Mason and the case of the desperate deception (1990) -- The domestication of the Holocaust : Skokie (1981) and Never forget (1991) -- Re-viewing the situation : Nuremberg (2000) and the crime of the century at the end of the century.
Call Number
MFL 16-1488
ISBN
  • 9780853038740
  • 0853038740
OCLC
930538352
Author
Jordan, James (James Alexander), author.
Title
From Nuremberg to Hollywood : the Holocaust and the courtroom in American fictive film / James Jordan.
Publisher
London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2016.
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-229) and index.
Chronological Term
1946 - 1949
Research Call Number
MFL 16-1488
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