Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America by Alan Mintz

Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America by Alan Mintz

Examines reactions to three films: "Judgement 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.

"Mintz's insights give pause for thought on matters of great interest to educators, parents, and the Jewish community as a whole, in addition to scholars in a range of fields, including literary studies, American studies, film studies, and popular culture as well as Holocaust studies"oNaomi Sokoloff, University of Washington "The questions and issues Mintz raises throughout his book take the study of these texts to a sophisticated yet sensible new level. Mintz challenges the assumption that there are automatic lessons to be learned from such memory, or that there can be any redemption in such memory. These are crucial insights which deserve the widest possible audience."oJames E. Young, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (author of The Texture of Memory and At Memory's Edge.)

Alan L. Mintz is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at Brandeis University. The author of several well-regarded works in literary criticism, Mintz also has served as co-editor of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History since its founding in 1981.

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ISBN 13	9780295981611
ISBN 10	029598161X
Title	Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America
Author	Alan Mintz
Series	Samuel And Althea Stroum Lectures In Jewish Studies
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Washington Press
Year published	2001-06-01
Number of pages	222
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