First films of the Holocaust : Soviet cinema and the genocide of the Jews, 1938 - 1946 / Jeremy Hicks

Most early Western perceptions of the Holocaust were based on newsreels filmed during the Allied liberation of Germany in 1945. Little, however, was reported of the initial wave of material from Soviet filmmakers, who were in fact the first to document these horrors. In First Films of the Holocaust,...

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Main Authors:Hicks, Jeremy (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2012]
© 2012
Series:Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Table of Contents
"Right off the top of the news" : Professor Mamlock and Soviet Antifascist film
"The beasts have taken aim at us" : Soviet newsreels screen the War and the Holocaust
Imagining occupation : partisans and spectral Jews
Dovzhenko : moving the boundaries of the acceptable
Mark Donskoi's Reconstruction of Babyi Iar : The unvanquished
Liberation of the camps
"The dead never lie" : Soviet film, the Nuremberg Tribunal, and the Holocaust.