Research In-progress
International Holocaust Cinema
I have begun work on a new edited collection that offers original contributions to the study of Holocaust films from diverse nations and within specific production and reception contexts. National cinemas addressed within the volume will include the former Bulgaria, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Leading scholars and new contributors alike will explore content, form, and style in both single film close-ups and comparative case studies of feature films and documentaries. Contributors come from diverse disciplines, including Holocaust and genocide studies, film and media studies, historical studies, legal studies, and gender studies. The volume is aimed at academics, teachers, and an educated popular audience, to provide new considerations of films, both familiar and lesser known, from the 1950s to the present.
I have begun work on a new edited collection that offers original contributions to the study of Holocaust films from diverse nations and within specific production and reception contexts. National cinemas addressed within the volume will include the former Bulgaria, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Leading scholars and new contributors alike will explore content, form, and style in both single film close-ups and comparative case studies of feature films and documentaries. Contributors come from diverse disciplines, including Holocaust and genocide studies, film and media studies, historical studies, legal studies, and gender studies. The volume is aimed at academics, teachers, and an educated popular audience, to provide new considerations of films, both familiar and lesser known, from the 1950s to the present.
I will also contribute a chapter to the book, with the working title "Hallmark and the Holocaust: The Case of Miss Rose White (1992)." The piece will study the award-winning Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television film adaptation of Barbara Lebow's 1986 play, A Shayna Maidel, about two sisters reunited after the Holocaust in 1946 New York. I examine the details of this adaptation within the context of the transitional era from network to cable television, particularly for Hallmark, which was phasing out its prestige network productions to begin its creation of the Hallmark Channel.