Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Robert Eaglestone, Barry Langford

   Pages 1-14

3. Issues Arising from Teaching Holocaust Film and Literature

   • Sue Vice, Gwyneth Bodger

   Pages 15-27

4. Holocaust Theory?

   • Robert Eaglestone

   Pages 28-36

5. The Role of Theories of Memory in Teaching Representations of the Holocaust

   • Anne Whitehead

   Pages 37-47

6. Teaching Holocaust Literature: Issues of Representation

   • Nicola King

   Pages 48-62

7. Mass Culture/Mass Media/Mass Death: Teaching Film, Television, and the Holocaust

   • Barry Langford

   Pages 63-77

8. “Representing the Holocaust”: an Interdisciplinary Module

   • Antony Rowland

   Pages 78-90

9. Teaching the Holocaust in French Studies: Questions of Mediation and Experience

   • Ursula Tidd

   Pages 91-101

10. History, Memory, Fiction in French Cinema

    • Libby Saxton

    Pages 102-113

11. Teaching Primo Levi

    • Rachel Falconer

    Pages 114-125

12. Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film to History Students: Teaching The Pawnbroker (1961/1965)

    • Tim Cole

    Pages 126-138

13. Sophie’s Choice: On the Pedagogical Value of the “Problem Text”

    • R. Clifton Spargo

    Pages 139-155

14. Back Matter

    Pages 156-170

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The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? Scholars address these and other questions in this collection.

• cinema
• fiction
• film
• history
• Holocaust
• television

• Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

  Robert Eaglestone, Barry Langford

GWYNETH BODGER Affiliated Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge, UK TIM COLE Senior Lecturer in Social History at the University of Bristol, UK RACHEL FALCONER Reader in English Literature in the School of English at the University of Sheffield, UK NICOLA KING Senior Lecturer in English at the University of the West of England, UK ANTONY ROWLAND Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Salford, UK LIBBY SAXTON Lecturer in French and Film Studies in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary, University of London, UK R. CLIFTON SPARGO Fiction writer and critic, and Associate Professor of English at Marquette University, USA URSULA TIDD Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester, UK SUE VICE Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK ANNE WHITEHEAD Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Theory in the School of English at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Policies and ethics