The moral of memory: When cinema goes to Holocaust
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https://doi.org/10.4013/4660Abstract
The main purpose of this paper is to analyze how movies are framing the Holocaust. The idea is to take part on a discussion concerning the trivialization of the Holocaust in the cinema: the banality of evil being multiplied by the evil of banality. We look at three recent films (“The Reader”, “Valkyrie”, and “Fall!”) and “Shoah” (1985), and through them we will debate on memory and the responsibility it holds. Following this reasoning, we will get towards Walter Benjamin and his concepts of remembrance and history. Finally, we will address “The human question”, a different film about Nazism.
Key words: cinema, holocaust, Walter Benjamin, memory.Downloads
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