Class 20. 11/3 Televising the Holocaust
Film: “This Is Your Life, Hanna Kohner,” 25 min.This Is Your Life, Hanna Kohner
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Jeffrey Shandler, While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust (1999), ch. 2, “This Is Your Life Download This Is Your Life,” 27–40.
Magilow and Silverman, Holocaust Representations, ch. 10, “Shoah,” 103–110.
How has the portrayal of Holocaust survivors changed over time? How do This Is Your Life and Shoah shape stories of the Holocaust?