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  • 标题:Marginalising the Marginal in Holocaust Films: Fictional Representations of Jewish Policemen
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  • 作者:Adam Brown
  • 期刊名称:Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies
  • 印刷版ISSN:1324-4558
  • 电子版ISSN:1833-3419
  • 出版年度:2009
  • 卷号:15
  • 页码:1
  • 出版社:University of Western Australia
  • 摘要:

    This paper explores the issue of how Jewish victims who occupied so-called 'privileged' positions during the Holocaust are represented in fictional films. Such figures, particularly Jewish policemen in the ghettos, may be seen to inhabit the 'marginal' in two ways, both in terms of the unprecedented ethical dilemmas they faced, and the relative lack of attention such figures have received. Taking Primo Levi's paradigmatic essay on the 'grey zone' as a point of departure, this paper analyses how Jewish policemen are represented in mainstream, 'Hollywood' fictional films, namely Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, in order to reveal that the narrative concerns of such works preclude any serious engagement with themes of moral ambiguity and 'compromise'. Attention will also be given to a more recent trend in the genre of Holocaust film that directly confronts these issues, nonetheless such films may themselves be viewed as marginalised due to their subject matter.

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