Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory

by Marek Haltof

Book Overview

During World War II Poland lost more than six million people, including about three million Polish Jews who perished in the ghettos and extermination camps built by Nazi Germany in occupied Polish territories. This book is the first to address the representation of the Holocaust in Polish film and does so through a detailed treatment of several films, which the author frames in relation to the political, ideological, and cultural contexts of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857453564
• ISBN13: 9780857453563
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"