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This chapter acknowledges the main objective of this book: to explore how European cinema has constructed particular sets of images of and discourses on women in the Holocaust over time. This monograph examines how and why the portrayal of women in European Holocaust films has changed since the end of World War II, and traces the various patterns that characterise their representation throughout the intervening decades. Working with a corpus of 310 films, this research presents an analysis of the dynamic relationship between gender, film and the history and memory of the Holocaust. This introductory chapter explains the book’s heterogeneous approach to women and the reasons for its specific focus on perpetrators, victims and resisters.
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Lewis, I. (2017). Introduction. In: Women in European Holocaust Films. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65061-6_1
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