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The legacy of the Holocaust continues to reverberate and evolve in Jewish culture and beyond and this book makes an important contribution to it by identifying, defining, and evaluating the next stage in that legacy.--Yaron Peleg Kennedy-Leigh Reader in Modern Hebrew Studies, University of Cambridge A much-needed and most valuable study on the research of Holocaust awareness and of Holocaust cinematic representations.--Nurith Gertz professor emerita of Hebrew literature and film at The Open University of Israel Steeped in the scholarly literature of film, gender, Holocaust, and memory studies, Steir-Livny lucidly delineates and explains the differences in cinematic techniques, directorial intent, and subject matter of Holocaust documentaries produced by second- and third-generation Israeli filmmakers. --Lawrence Baron professor emeritus, San Diego State University

Steeped in the scholarly literature of film, gender, Holocaust, and memory studies, Steir-Livny lucidly delineates and explains the differences in cinematic techniques, directorial intent, and subject matter of Holocaust documentaries produced by second- and third-generation Israeli filmmakers.--Lawrence Baron professor emeritus, San Diego State University The first book-length academic study to investigate the subject from a cultural, cinematic and sociohistorical approach by analyzing the differences between the ways in which the third generation in Israel and second generation portray the Holocaust.--Jewish Link A much-needed and most valuable study on the research of Holocaust awareness and of Holocaust cinematic representations.--Nurith Gertz professor emerita of Hebrew literature and film at The Open University of Israel The legacy of the Holocaust continues to reverberate and evolve in Jewish culture and beyond and this book makes an important contribution to it by identifying, defining, and evaluating the next stage in that legacy.--Yaron Peleg Kennedy-Leigh Reader in Modern Hebrew Studies, University of Cambridge Remaking Holocaust Memory aims to paint the first comprehensive portrait of [the] third-generation Holocaust documentaries phenomenon. It takes a cinematic, cultural, and sociohistorical comparative approach to examine how third-generation filmmakers have responded to previous narratives and representations.--New Books Network

A much-needed and most valuable study on the research of Holocaust awareness and of Holocaust cinematic representations.--Nurith Gertz, professor emerita of Hebrew literature and film at The Open University of Israel Steeped in the scholarly literature of film, gender, Holocaust, and memory studies, Steir-Livny lucidly delineates and explains the differences in cinematic techniques, directorial intent, and subject matter of Holocaust documentaries produced by second- and third-generation Israeli filmmakers.--Lawrence Baron, professor emeritus, San Diego State University The legacy of the Holocaust continues to reverberate and evolve in Jewish culture and beyond and this book makes an important contribution to it by identifying, defining, and evaluating the next stage in that legacy.--Yaron Peleg, Kennedy-Leigh Reader in Modern Hebrew Studies, University of Cambridge The first book-length academic study to investigate the subject from a cultural, cinematic and sociohistorical approach by analyzing the differences between the ways in which the third generation in Israel and second generation portray the Holocaust.--Jewish Link Remaking Holocaust Memory aims to paint the first comprehensive portrait of [the] third-generation Holocaust documentaries phenomenon. It takes a cinematic, cultural, and sociohistorical comparative approach to examine how third-generation filmmakers have responded to previous narratives and representations.--New Books Network

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Liat Steir-Livny is assistant professor in the Department of Culture at Sapir Academic College in Israel and a tutor and course coordinator at The Open University of Israel.

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