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Representing perpetrators in Holocaust literature and film /

Title
Representing perpetrators in Holocaust literature and film / edited by Jenni Adams and Sue Vice.
Publication
Edgware, Middlesex ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Adams, Jenni, 1984-
  • Vice, Sue, 1961-
Description
vi, 292 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Criminals in literature
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
  • Nazis in motion pictures
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Violence, aesthetics, complicity. Avoiding evil in perpetrator fiction / Robert Eaglestone ; reading (as) violence in Jonathan Littell's The kindly ones / Jenni Adams ; Claude Lanzmann's Einsatzgruppen interviews / Sue Vice ; Screening women's complicity in the Holocaust : the problems of judgement and representation / Adam Brown -- Representation and understanding. The perpetrator occult : Francis Bacon paints Adolf Eichmann / Lyndsey Stonebridge ; The modern Haman : ghetto diary writer's understanding of Holocaust perpetrators / Amy Simon ; Reading the female perpetrator / Antonly Rowland -- Politics, form and genre. Downfall : the Nazi genocide as a natural disaster / Matthew Boswell ; 'Repetition, boredom, despair' : Muriel Spark and the Eichmann trial / James Bailey ; The prisoner (1952) and the perpetrator in early post-war British television / James Jordan -- Memories, sites and contexts. Visualising 'everyday' evil : the representation of Nazi perpetrators in German memorial sites / Caroline Pearce ; 'We shall be punished' : positionality and postmemory in Rachel Seiffert's The dark room and Uwe Timm's In my brother's shadow / Christine Berberich ; Bruce Chatwin, W.G. Sebald and the red-brown skin / Laurence Piercy ; Perpetration, guilt and cross-genre representation in Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir / Eleanor Kent.
ISBN
  • 0853038260 (hbk.)
  • 0853038961 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780853038962 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library