The Fantastic In Holocaust Literature And Film

Author : Judith B. Kerman,John Edgar Browning
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786458745

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The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film by Judith B. Kerman,John Edgar Browning Pdf

When reality becomes fantastic, what literary effects will render it credible or comprehensible? To respond meaningfully to the surreality of the Holocaust, writers must produce works of moral and emotional complexity. One way they have achieved this is through elements of fantasy. Covering a range of theoretical perspectives, this collection of essays explores the use of fantastic story-telling in Holocaust literature and film. Writers such as Jane Yolen and Art Spiegelman are discussed, as well as the sci-fi television series V (1983), Stephen King's novella Apt Pupil (1982), Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Martin Scorsese's dark thriller Shutter Island (2010).

Author : Jenni Adams,Sue Vice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
ISBN : OCLC:847602778

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Representing Perpetrators in Holocaust Literature and Film by Jenni Adams,Sue Vice Pdf

Author : Victoria Aarons,Phyllis Lassner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030334284

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The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture by Victoria Aarons,Phyllis Lassner Pdf

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation. The chapters consider diverse generational perspectives—survivor writing, second and third generation—and genres—memoirs, poetry, novels, graphic narratives, films, video-testimonies, and other forms of literary and cultural expression. In turn, these perspectives create interactions among generations, genres, temporalities, and cultural contexts. The volume also participates in the ongoing project of responding to and talking through moments of rupture and incompletion that represent an opportunity to contribute to the making of meaning through the continuation of narratives of the past. As such, the chapters in this volume pose options for reading Holocaust texts, offering openings for further discussion and exploration. The inquiring body of interpretive scholarship responding to the Shoah becomes itself a story, a narrative that materially extends our inquiry into that history.

Author : Glyn Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501350566

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Imagining the Unimaginable by Glyn Morgan Pdf

Imagining the Unimaginable examines popular fiction's treatment of the Holocaust in the dystopian and alternate history genres of speculative fiction, analyzing the effectiveness of the genre's major works as a lens through which to view the most prominent historical trauma of the 20th century. It surveys a range of British and American authors, from science fiction pulp to Pulitzer Prize winners, building on scholarship across disciplines, including Holocaust studies, trauma studies, and science fiction studies. The conventional discourse around the Holocaust is one of the unapproachable, unknowable, and the unimaginable. The Holocaust has been compared to an earthquake, another planet, another universe, a void. It has been said to be beyond language, or else have its own incomprehensible language, beyond art, and beyond thought. The 'othering' of the event has spurred the phenomenon of non-realist Holocaust literature, engaging with speculative fiction and its history of the uncanny, the grotesque, and the inhuman. This book examines the most common forms of nonmimetic Holocaust fiction, the dystopia and the alternate history, while firmly positioning these forms within a broader pattern of non-realist engagements with the Holocaust.

Author : W. Donahue
Publisher : Springer
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230115460

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Holocaust as Fiction by W. Donahue Pdf

Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader , the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work.

Author : Larson Powell
Publisher : Screen Cultures: German Film a
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781640140721

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The Films of Konrad Wolf by Larson Powell Pdf

This is the first book in any language on the films of Konrad Wolf (1925-1982), East Germany's greatest filmmaker, and puts Wolf in a larger European filmic and historical context.

Author : Ruth Franklin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199779775

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A Thousand Darknesses by Ruth Franklin Pdf

What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be 'truthful'--that is, faithful to the facts of history? Or is it okay to lie in such works? In her provocative study A Thousand Darknesses, Ruth Franklin investigates these questions as they arise in the most significant works of Holocaust fiction, from Tadeusz Borowski's Auschwitz stories to Jonathan Safran Foer's postmodernist family history. Franklin argues that the memory-obsessed culture of the last few decades has led us to mistakenly focus on testimony as the only valid form of Holocaust writing. As even the most canonical texts have come under scrutiny for their fidelity to the facts, we have lost sight of the essential role that imagination plays in the creation of any literary work, including the memoir. Taking a fresh look at memoirs by Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi, and examining novels by writers such as Piotr Rawicz, Jerzy Kosinski, W.G. Sebald, and Wolfgang Koeppen, Franklin makes a persuasive case for literature as an equally vital vehicle for understanding the Holocaust (and for memoir as an equally ambiguous form). The result is a study of immense depth and range that offers a lucid view of an often cloudy field.

Author : Sue Vice
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN : 9780415185523

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Holocaust Fiction by Sue Vice Pdf

This text presents a critical survey of a broad range of fictional representations of the Holocaust published over the last 20 years.

Author : Donald E. Palumbo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476618517

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The Monomyth in American Science Fiction Films by Donald E. Palumbo Pdf

One of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century, Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces is an elaborate articulation of the monomyth: the narrative pattern underlying countless stories from the most ancient myths and legends to the films and television series of today. The monomyth's fundamental storyline, in Campbell's words, sees "the hero venture forth from the world of the common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons to his fellow man." Campbell asserted that the hero is each of us--thus the monomyth's endurance as a compelling plot structure. This study examines the monomyth in the context of Campbell's The Hero and discusses the use of this versatile narrative in 26 films and two television shows produced between 1960 and 2009, including the initial Star Wars trilogy (1977-1983), The Time Machine (1960), Logan's Run (1976), Escape from New York (1981), Tron (1982), The Terminator (1984), The Matrix (1999), the first 11 Star Trek films (1979-2009), and the Sci Fi Channel's miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune (2000) and Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003).

Author : Deke Parsons
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786495375

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J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard and the Birth of Modern Fantasy by Deke Parsons Pdf

The birth of modern fantasy in 1930s Britain and America saw the development of new literary and film genres. J.R.R. Tolkien created modern fantasy with The Lord of the Rings, set in a fictional world based upon his life in the early 20th century British Empire, and his love of language and medieval literature. In small-town Texas, Robert E. Howard pounded out his own fantasy realm in his Conan stories, published serially in the ephemeral pulp magazines he loved. Jerry Siegel created Superman with Joe Shuster, and laid the foundation for perhaps the most far-reaching fantasy worlds: the universe of DC and Marvel comics. The work of extraordinary people who lived in an extraordinary decade, this modern fantasy canon still provides source material for the most successful literary and film franchises of the 21st century. Modern fantasy speaks to the human experience and still shows its origins from the lives and times of its creators.

Author : Noah Simon Jampol,,Cain Miller,Leah Richards
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476685687

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Not of the Living Dead by Noah Simon Jampol,,Cain Miller,Leah Richards Pdf

A killer monkey. Suburban witchcraft. Motorcycle jousting. A cockroach invasion. Despite this enticing list of other subjects, George A. Romero is best known for the genre-defining 1968 film Night of the Living Dead and subsequent zombie films. The non-zombie films in his decades-long career have gotten varied degrees of critical examination but they remain underexamined compared to the Dead flicks. This book focuses on Romero's "other" work, highlighting lesser-known films such as There's Always Vanilla (1971) and Bruiser (2000), as well as more popular films such as Martin (1977) and The Crazies (1973). It examines how his body of work participates in social critique by delving into issues such as capitalism's pitfalls and excesses, domestic and racial power imbalances, and our patriarchal culture's expectations of masculinity, femininity, and sexuality.

Author : Jennifer Simkins
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476627250

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The Science Fiction Mythmakers by Jennifer Simkins Pdf

A literary genre that pervades 21st-century popular culture, science fiction creates mythologies that make statements about humanity’s place in the universe and embody an intersection of science, religion and philosophy. This book considers the significance of this confluence through an examination of myths in the writings of H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Frank Herbert. Presenting fresh insights into their works, the author brings to light the tendency of science fiction narratives to reaffirm spiritual myths.

Author : Michael R. Page
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476628226

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Saving the World Through Science Fiction by Michael R. Page Pdf

One of the major figures in science fiction for more than sixty years, James Gunn has been instrumental in making the genre one of the most vibrant and engaging areas of literary scholarship. His genre history Alternate Worlds and his The Road to Science Fiction anthologies introduced countless readers to science fiction. He founded the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction in 1982. But Gunn has also been one of the genre's leading writers. His classic novels Star Bridge (with Jack Williamson), The Joy Makers, The Immortals and The Listeners helped shape the field. Now in his nineties, he remains a prominent voice. His forthcoming novel is Transformation. Drawing on materials from Gunn's archives and personal interviews with him, this study is the first to examine the life, career and writing of this science fiction grandmaster.

Author : Annette Insdorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521016304

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Indelible Shadows by Annette Insdorf Pdf

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Author : Tom Powers
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476626932

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Gender and the Quest in British Science Fiction Television by Tom Powers Pdf

The subjects of this book constitute a significant cross section of BBC science fiction television. With such characters as the Doctor (an enigmatic time-traveling alien), Kerr Avon (a problematic rebel leader), Dave Lister (a slovenly last surviving human) and Captain Jack Harkness (a complex omnisexual immortal), these shows have both challenged and reinforced viewer expectations about the small-screen masculine hero. This book explores the construction of gendered heroic identity in the series from both production and fan perspectives. The paradoxical relationships between the producers, writers and fans of the four series are discussed. Fan fiction, criticism and videos are examined that both celebrate and criticize BBC science fiction heroes and villains.