While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust

by Shandler, Jeffrey

First Soft Cover Edition

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Book desription: New York: Oxford Univ Press, 1999. First Soft Cover Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Photographs. The Holocaust holds a unique place in American public culture and, as the author demonstrates, television has played a strategic role in establishing the Holocaust as a powerful moral paradigm in the United States. Shandler's analysis starts with wartime newsreels of liberated concentration camps, showing how they established viewing the evidence of genocide as a morally galvanizing act. He then moves through five decades of American television, exploring its many presentations of the Holocaust, including such international landmarks as the coverage of the Eichmann trial in 1961 and the 1978 Holocaust miniseries. Here, too, are lesser known examples: original drama telecasts live during the early postwar years, episodes of popular entertainment series such as All in the Family and Star Trek, as well as several decades of documentaries, newscasts, and even advertisements. By tracing the course of Holocaust television of the past half century, this book reveals how Americans have come to embrace this subject as a model for responding to other moral crises, from domestic racial strife to "ethnic cleansing" operations in Bosnia. 316 pages including endnotes and an index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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