Part I. Finding an Appropriate Language: 1. The Hollywood version of the Holocaust
2. Meaningful montage
3. Styles of tension
4. Black humor
Part II. Narrative Strategies: 5. The Jew as child
6. In hiding/onstage
7. Beautiful evasions?
8. The condemned and doomed
Part III. Responses to Nazi Atrocity: 9. Political resistance
10. The ambiguity of identity
11. The new German guilt
Part IV. Shaping Reality: 12. The personal documentary
13. From judgment to illumination
Part V. Third Edition Update: 14. The Holocaust as genre
15. Rediscoveries
16. Rescuers in fiction films
17. The ironic touch
18. Dysfunction as distortion: the Holocaust survivor on screen and stage
19. Documentaries of return.
Part I. Finding an Appropriate Language: 1. The Hollywood version of the Holocaust; 2. Meaningful montage; 3. Styles of tension; 4. Black humor; Part II. Narrative Strategies: 5. The Jew as child; 6. In hiding/onstage; 7. Beautiful evasions?; 8. The condemned and doomed; Part III. Responses to Nazi Atrocity: 9. Political resistance; 10. The ambiguity of identity; 11. The new German guilt; Part IV. Shaping Reality: 12. The personal documentary; 13. From judgment to illumination; Part V. Third Edition Update: 14. The Holocaust as genre; 15. Rediscoveries; 16. Rescuers in fiction films; 17. The ironic touch; 18. Dysfunction as distortion: the Holocaust survivor on screen and stage; 19. Documentaries of return.