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Article: Film comment. (Reviews).
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- March 22, 2002
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Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America. By ALAN MINTZ. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.
If poetry after Auschwitz could be considered barbaric, according to the famous dictum of Theodor W. Adorno, then how much more problematic might movies about the Holocaust be? Far more than poetry, film entails the compromise of art with commerce, and binds the imperatives of expression with the need to please the masses. Before the terrifying mystery of the Shoak, even artists have sometimes become mute; and the resources of the most articulate and visionary among us risk exposure as inadequate, when confronted with the gap between the ...