Surviving "Survivors": A Review of An Interactive Program on the Holocaust.
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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark R073591 Ned. Fotomuseum Ned. fotomuseum
TitleSurviving "Survivors": A Review of An Interactive Program on the Holocaust.
Author
Edition[nummer] 3
[jaargang] 4
[tijdschrift; titel] Current Issues in Education
Photographer
Year of publication2001
Materialartikel
Document TypeArticle
External document
SubjectHolocaust, Filosofie en fotografie, Foto als historisch document, Visuele sociologie, digitaal beschikbaar
Abstract
A review of: Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual history Foundation. (1999). Survivors: Testimonies of the Holocaust. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, Inc. Media : Two CD set, $29.95, ISBN: 0-784-91643-8.
[from the author's introduction: ]
If there is anything worse for historical memory than Holocaust denial it is Holocaust affirmation. Leo Lowenthal, a member of the Frankfurt School who escaped the Nazis, famously observed that "Mass culture is psychoanalysis in reverse" (quoted in Jay 1996:173) and Steven Spielberg seems hell-bent to prove Lowenthal's point with Survivors, a two CD-ROM disk set on the Holocaust built around the oral histories of four Jewish Americans who survived the Nazi death camps. Excerpts from the interviews are presented in such a way not to uncover the repressed, but to bury it deeper.
[from the author's introduction: ]
If there is anything worse for historical memory than Holocaust denial it is Holocaust affirmation. Leo Lowenthal, a member of the Frankfurt School who escaped the Nazis, famously observed that "Mass culture is psychoanalysis in reverse" (quoted in Jay 1996:173) and Steven Spielberg seems hell-bent to prove Lowenthal's point with Survivors, a two CD-ROM disk set on the Holocaust built around the oral histories of four Jewish Americans who survived the Nazi death camps. Excerpts from the interviews are presented in such a way not to uncover the repressed, but to bury it deeper.
| Copy number | R073591 |
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| Shelf mark | Ned. fotomuseum |