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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779173603321

Autore

Haltof Marek

Titolo

Polish film and the Holocaust [[electronic resource] ] : politics and memory / / Marek Haltof

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012

ISBN

9786613591760

1-280-49653-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Classificazione

AP 44949

Disciplina

791.43/658405318

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Poland - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

During World War II Poland lost more than six million people, including about three million Polish Jews who perished in the ghettos and extermination camps built by Nazi Germany in occupied Polish territories. 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. Following the chronological development of Polish Holocaust films, the book begins with two early classics: Wanda Ja