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The Resource From Nuremberg to Hollywood : the Holocaust and the courtroom in American fictive film, James Jordan

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

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"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
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
245 pages
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
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9780853038740
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From Nuremberg to Hollywood : the Holocaust and the courtroom in American fictive film
Title
From Nuremberg to Hollywood
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the Holocaust and the courtroom in American fictive film
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James Jordan
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Author
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Language
eng
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
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Jordan, James
Dewey number
791.43/6582
Index
index present
LC call number
PN1995.9.T75
LC item number
J67 2016
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Eichmann, Adolf
  • Eichmann, Adolf
  • Trials in motion pictures
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
  • Historical films
  • Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949
  • Eichmann, Adolf
  • Nuremberg War Crime Trials (Germany : 1946-1949)
  • Historical films
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures
  • Trials in motion pictures
  • Germany
  • United States
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From Nuremberg to Hollywood : the Holocaust and the courtroom in American fictive film, James Jordan
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Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-229) and index
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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
Control code
930538352
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
245 pages
Isbn
9780853038740
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)930538352
Label
From Nuremberg to Hollywood : the Holocaust and the courtroom in American fictive film, James Jordan
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-229) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
930538352
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
245 pages
Isbn
9780853038740
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)930538352

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