Why we fought

Ehrenhaus, Peter
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Title Why we fought : Holocaust memory in Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan".
Host Item Critical Studies in Media Communication 18,3 (2001) 321-337
Description The theme of the Holocaust, albeit in symbolic form, is present in Spielberg's film "Saving Private Ryan". The abandonment of the Jewish soldier, Mellish, killed by an SS-man, symbolizes abandonment of the Jews by the rest of the world. Contends that this episode proposes a moral justification for waging the war, since the war against Nazism was a crusade against the Holocaust. By suturing the Holocaust into the film as its moral foundation, the film participates in the "Americanization" of Holocaust memory, circumvents Vietnam as a source of traumatic memory, manufactures a redemptive national identity, and constructs an ethically usable past in the present. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Language English
National Library system number 990003669700705171
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