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Rethinking Holocaust Film Reception : A British Case Study, Hardback Book

Rethinking Holocaust Film Reception : A British Case Study Hardback

Part of the Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory series

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Taking early 21st century Britain as a case study, Rethinking Holocaust Film Reception: A British Case Study presents an intervention into the scholarship on the representation of the Holocaust on film.

Based on a study of audience responses to select films, Stefanie Rauch demonstrates that the reception of films about the Holocaust is a complex process that we cannot understand through textual analysis alone, but by also paying attention to individual reception processes.

This book restores the agency of viewers and takes seriously their diverse responses to representations of the Holocaust.

It demonstrates that viewers’ interpretative resources play an important role in film reception.

Viewers regard Holocaust films as a separate genre that they encounter with a set of expectations.

The author highlights the implications of Britain’s lessons-focused approach to Holocaust education and commemoration and addresses debates around the supposed globalization of Holocaust memory by unpacking the peculiar Britishness of viewers’ responses to films about the Holocaust.

A sense of emotional connection or its absence to the Holocaust and its memory speaks to divisions along ethnic, generational, and national lines.

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