Polish film and the Holocaust : politics and memory

Polish film and the Holocaust : politics and memory / Marek Haltof.

This book is the first to address the representation of the Holocaust in Polish film and does so through a detailed treatment of several films, which the author frames in relation to the political, ideological, and cultural contexts of the times in which they were created.--Publisher description.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haltof, Marek (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, c2014.
Edition:First paperback edition
Subjects:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Poland > History > 20th century.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Postwar Poland: geopolitics and cinema
  • Wanda Jakubowska's return to Auschwitz: the last stage
  • Commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Border Street
  • Images of the Holocaust during the Polish School period (1955-1965)
  • Years of organized forgetting (1965-1980)
  • Return of the repressed: "The poor Poles look at the ghetto" (1981- )
  • Andrzej Wajda responds: Korczak (1990) and holy week
  • Documentary archaeology of the Holocaust and Polish-Jewish past
  • Afterword.

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