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Remaking Holocaust Memory: Documentary Cinema by Third-Generation Survivors in Israel

Remaking Holocaust Memory: Documentary Cinema by Third-Generation Survivors in Israel

Steir-Livny, Liat

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Film StudiesHolocaustIsrael & Palestine History

ISBN10: 0815636504
ISBN13: 9780815636502
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: Apr 18 2019
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.60 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Since the late 1990s in Israel, third-generation Holocaust survivors have become the new custodians of cultural memory, and the documentary films they produce play a major role in shaping a societal consensus of commemoration. In Remaking Holocaust Memory, a pioneering analysis of third-generation Holocaust documentaries in Israel, Liat Steir-Livny, co-recipient of the 2019 Young Scholar Award given jointly by the Association of Israel Studies and the Israel Institute, investigates compelling films that have been screened in Israel, Europe, and the United States, appeared in numerous international film festivals, and won international awards, but have yet to receive significant academic attention.

Steir-Livny's comprehensive investigation reveals how the absolute truths that appeared in the majority of second-generation films are deconstructed and disputed in the newer films, which do not dismiss their cinematic parents' approach but rather rethink fixed notions, extend the debates, and pose questions where previously there had been exclamation marks. Steir-Livny also explores the ways in which the third-generation's perspectives on Holocaust memory govern cinematic trends and aesthetic choices, and how

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