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Media Screen Roundup: February 2016

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research.

This month’s Media Screen Roundup features a number of articles and books on Judaism and the Holocaust, including the following:

Mayers, Oren. 2014. Communicating Awe  : Media Memory and Holocaust Commemoration. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Includes chapter, Programming Commemoration: Holocaust Remembrance Day Television Broadcasts on Commercial and Public Television

Meiri, Sandra. 2015. ‘Visual Responses: Women’s Experience of Sexual Violence as Represented in Israeli Holocaust-Related Cinema’. European Journal of Women’s Studies 22 (4): 443–56. doi:10.1177/1350506815606439.

Michalczyk, John J. 2014. Filming the End of the Holocaust: Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps. War, Culture and Society. London, UK ; New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.

Popescu, Diana, and Tanja Schult. 2015. Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witnessing Era. The Holocaust and Its Context. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Includes chapter, ‘Ordinary’ Women as Perpetrators in European Holocaust Films by Ingrid Lewis

Shenker, Noah. 2015. Reframing Holocaust Testimony. The Modern Jewish Experience. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Includes chapter, The Cinematic Origins and the Digital Future of the Shoah Foundation.

Media Screen Roundup (Feb 2016) IHR-BUFVC (PDF)

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