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“Jeffrey Demsky’s Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture makes a vital contribution to Holocaust Studies. Beginning with the 1945 Nuremberg Trials and concluding with the emergence of potentially incendiary modes of representation in the opening decades of the twenty-first century, Demsky makes convincing claims for the complex ways in which even the most problematic pop cultural discourses reframe and extend Holocaust memory.”
—Victoria Aarons, O.R. & Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA
“No subject poses a greater challenge to the moral imagination than the Holocaust, nor raises more complicated questions than its memorialization and its pedagogy. To clarify these tricky issues, Jeffrey Demsky brings the resources of an enduring and serious engagement, a tenacious appetite for the detritus of popular culture, and a flair for crisp and livelyprose. Demsky’s willingness to stalk the terrain of the most problematic expressions of Holocaust imagery is scrupulous and admirable.”
—Stephen J. Whitfield, Professor of American Studies (Emeritus), Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
“Jeffrey Demsky examines whether “irreverent” depictions of the Holocaust in Anglo-American popular culture promote rather than diminish public awareness of the event. He illustrates how malleable the collective memories of it have been since 1945 from the Nuremberg Trials to Pepe the Frog memes. Distinguishing between constructive and destructive memorialization, he thoughtfully demonstrates how the former challenges Holocaust commemorative rituals and revives its relevance while the latter mocks its victims and minimizes its horrors.”
—Lawrence Baron, Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
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Book Title: Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020
Book Subtitle: Irreverent Remembrance
Authors: Jeffrey Demsky
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79221-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79220-6Published: 18 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79223-7Published: 19 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79221-3Published: 17 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6419
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6427
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 140
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Heritage, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Popular Culture , Cultural Studies, Memory Studies