Cinematic memory and the Holocaust: online film studies

Prompted by renewed debates about Holocaust denial, as well as by recent discussion of 'Holocaust films' generated by the release of Stephen Daldry's new film The Reader, Film Studies For Free found itself duly compelled to come up with a 'webliography' of high-quality Film Studies articles, e-books, and e-theses about the Holocaust and Nazism on film, as well as on related matters of historiography, ethics, and representation. All are freely accessible: just click on the links below.

• Barton Byg, Landscapes of Resistance: The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995)
• Anne Lynne Blum, 'Absent mothers, absent fathers: Aspects of German Fascism as seen through the contemporary camera (Germany, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Agniewzka Holland, Marianne S. W. Rosenbaum, Su Friedrich)', Rice University e-thesis 1993


• Gordana P Crnković, 'Inscribed bodies, invited dialogues and cosmopolitan cinema: Some brief notes on Agnieszka Holland [and Bittere Ernte (Angry Harvest, 1984)],' Kinoeye, Vol 4, Issue 5, 29 Nov 2004


• Thomas Elsaesser, '"One train may be hiding another": private history, memory and national identity', Screening the Past, Issue 6, 1999


• Terri Ginsberg, 'Towards a Critique of Holocaust Cinematic Culture', Chapter 1 of Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology, (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007)


• Frances Guerin, 'The energy of disappearing: problems of recycling Nazi amateur film footage', Screening the Past, Issue 17, 2004


• Adrienne Kertzer, 'Like a fable, not a pretty picture: Holocaust representation in Roberto Benigni and Anita Lobel, (Secret Spaces of Childhood: Part 1) Michigan Quarterly Review Spring 2000 v39 i2 p279 (22)
• Siegfried Kracauer, From Caligari To Hitler: A Psychological History Of The German Film (Princeton University Press, 1947)


• Robert S. Leventhal, 'Romancing the Holocaust, or Hollywood and Horror: Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List' in Responses to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities, 1995


• Jennifer Levi, 'Performing selves/performing as self: autobiographical films of children of Jewish Holocaust survivors,' Journal of Religion and Film 3,2. 1999


• Angela Palmer, 'The birth of remembering Wolfgang Staudte's Die Mörder sind unter uns (The Murderers are among Us, 1946), Kinoeye, Vol 3, Issue 11, 13 Oct 2003
• Julie Rigg, 'Spielberg and the Girl in the Little Red Coat,' Senses of Cinema 27: 2003 July-Aug
  
• Joel Rosenberg, 'Jewish Experience on Film: An Overview,' American Jewish Yearbook, 1996
• Libby Saxton, 'Fragile Faces: Levinas and Lanzmann', Film-Philosophy, 11.2 August 2007