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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958662903321

Titolo

Anne Frank unbound : media, imagination, memory / / edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2012

ISBN

9786613909572

9781283597128

1283597128

9780253007551

0253007550

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (455 p.)

Collana

The Modern Jewish Experience

Altri autori (Persone)

Kirshenblatt-GimblettBarbara

ShandlerJeffrey

Disciplina

940.53/18092

Soggetti

Jews - Netherlands - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This volume of essays was developed from ... a colloquium convened in 2005 by the Working Group on Jews, Media, and Religion of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University"--Introd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Anne Frank, the Phenomenon; I. Mediating; 1 From Diary to Book: Text, Object, Structure; 2 Anne Frank from Page to Stage; 3 Anne Frank's Moving Images; II. Remembering; 4 Hauntings of Anne Frank: Sitings in Germany; 5 Teaching Anne Frank in the United States; 6 Anne Frank as Icon, from Human Rights to Holocaust Denial; 7 Anne Frank, a Guest at the Seder; Color Plates; III. Imagining; 8 Literary Afterlives of Anne Frank; 9 Suturing In: Anne Frank as Conceptual Model for Visual Art

10 Sounds from the Secret Annex: Composing a Young Girl's Thoughts IV. Contesting; 11 Critical Thinking: Scholars Reread the Diary; 12 Anne Frank on Crank: Comic Anxieties; Epilogue: A Life of Its Own-The Anne Frank Tree; Notes; Musicography; Videography; Contributors; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

As millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. Anne Frank Unbound looks beyond this young girl's words at the numerous ways people have engaged her life



and writing. Apart from officially sanctioned works and organizations, there exists a prodigious amount of cultural production, which encompasses literature, art, music, film, television, blogs, pedagogy, scholarship, religious ritual, and comedy. Created by both artists and amateurs, these responses to Anne Frank ra