Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film

by Eaglestone, Robert; Langford, Barry

• ISBN13: 9780230019379
• ISBN10: 0230019374
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In recent years, the proliferation of courses on the representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students alike with some challenging and troubling questions. Is there a 'canon' of Holocaust representations? Are the conventional resources of literary and cinematic study adequate to dealing with the Holocaust, or does this disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? How is the diversity of relevant disciplinary perspectives bearing on Holocaust representations - from history and sociology to media studies and philosophical aesthetics - to be managed within the confines of a conventional degree programme? In this innovative and authoritative book, Holocaust scholars and teachers from the UK and US address these and other questions in a wide-ranging collection of specially commissioned essays, drawing on a wealth of practical experience in teaching Holocaust literature and film. Book jacket.

Author Biography

ROBERT EAGLESTONE is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

BARRY LANGFORD is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Table of Contents

Series Preface	p. vii
Notes on the Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Issues Arising from Teaching Holocaust Film and Literature	p. 15
Holocaust Theory?	p. 28
The Role of Theories of Memory in Teaching Representations of the Holocaust	p. 37
Teaching Holocaust Literature: Issues of Representation	p. 48
Mass Culture/Mass Media/Mass Death: Teaching Film, Television, and the Holocaust	p. 63
"Representing the Holocaust": an Interdisciplinary Module	p. 78
Teaching the Holocaust in French Studies: Questions of Mediation and Experience	p. 91
History, Memory, Fiction in French Cinema	p. 102
Teaching Primo Levi	p. 114
Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film to History Students: Teaching The Pawnbroker (1961/1965)	p. 126
Sophie's Choice: On the Pedagogical Value of the "Problem Text"	p. 139
The Holocaust: Historical, Literary, and Cinematic Timeline	p. 156
Further Reading	p. 161
Index	p. 167
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