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Jan 04, 2025
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ARHI 857 - Popular Culture and the Shaping of the Holocaust in American Memory3 credits
The immediacy of television and its growth in post-World War II America established a benchmark when early live dramatic productions and specialty shows brought stories of the Holocaust into the living rooms of the nation. Although the impact of this medium is central to the examination of the place of the Holocaust in American consciousness, students may employ a wider lens. May include Dorothy Thompson’s 1930’s anti-Nazi Germany radio broadcasts, the radio journalism of Edward R. Murrow, movie cartoons, and newsreels of the era. Additionally, a selection of later plays and TV productions may be given attention. Among the questions for discussion may be appropriation, the complexities and controversies of representation, memorialization, the role of emerging information technologies, and the challenge of “future memory”.
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