While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust

by Jeffrey Shandler

Book Overview

The Holocaust holds a unique place in American public culture, and, as Jeffrey Shandler argues in While America Watches, it is television, more than any other medium, that has brought the Holocaust into our homes, our hearts, and our minds.
Much has been written about Holocaust film and literature, and yet the medium that brings the subject to most people--television--has been largely neglected. Now Shandler provides the first account of how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195119355
• ISBN13: 9780195119350
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"