Indelible Shadows

Indelible Shadows investigates questions raised by films about the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? Film scholar Annette Insdorf provides sensitive readings of individual films and analyzes theoretical issues such as the truth claims of the cinematic medium. The third edition of Indelible Shadows includes five new chapters that cover recent trends as well as rediscoveries of motion pictures made during and just after World War II. It addresses the treatment of rescuers as in Schindler''s List; the controversial use of humor as in Life is Beautiful; the distorted image of survivors and the growing genre of documentaries that return to the scene of the crime or rescue. The annotated filmography offers capsule summaries and information about another hundred Holocaust films from around the world making this edition the most comprehensive and up to date discussion of films about the Holocaust and an invaluable resource for film programmers and educators. Annette Insdorf is Director of Undergraduate Film Studies at Columbia University and a Professor in the Graduate Film Division of the School of the Arts. She is the author of Double Lives Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kielowski (Hyperion 1999) and Francois Truffaut (Cambridge 1995). She served as a jury member at the Berlin Film Festival and the Locarno Film Festival and is the panel moderator at the Telluride Film Festival. Insdorf co-hosts (with Roger Ebert) Cannes Film Festival coverage for BRAVo/IFC.