Some Reflections on NBC's Film Holocaust

Cory, Mark E.

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“…So I scheduled, in advance, specific points along the film that were designated for the purpose of 10 A common abbreviation for MDHH. 11 For a discussion of the tensions between Holocaust commemoration and commercial broadcasting in the American context, see Cory (1980). interrupting the story in order to air commercials.…”

Section: Holocaust Representation and Routine Media Flowmentioning

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Structuring the Sacred: Media Professionalism and the Production of Mediated Holocaust Memory

Neiger

Zandberg

2011

The Communication Review

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In this study, the authors explore the considerations that guide media organizations when they narrate the past. To operationalize this research interest, the authors interviewed 10 senior Israeli electronic media professionals about the production processes that shape the broadcasts of electronic media on Israel's Memorial Day for the Holocaust and the Heroism. The analysis of the interviews illuminates the constructed and negotiated (rather than natural and inherent) nature of media professionalism.

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Section: Holocaust Representation and Routine Media Flowmentioning

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Structuring the Sacred: Media Professionalism and the Production of Mediated Holocaust Memory

Neiger

Zandberg

2011

The Communication Review

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Making Photographs Historic: The Use of Historical Black-and-White Stills in NBC’s Fictional Miniseries Holocaust

Taubitz¹

2013

Violence and Visibility in Modern History

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Holocaust industry? The (American) debate on the instrumentalization of the Shoah at the turn of the century

2023

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In three books published at the turn of the millennium, the authors talk about the phenomenon of the pronounced presence and significance of the Holocaust in American society: Hilene Flanzbaum?s Americanization of the Holocaust (1999), Peter Novick?s Holocaust in American Life (1999) and Norman Finkelstein?s The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (2000). These works describe (and criticize) the post-Holocaust memorial world which is characterized by the commodification, commercialization and instrumentalization of the culture of remembrance. Even though each of these authors invoked/understood the term differently, the effect of their works was the introduction of the term ?Holocaust industry? into the public discourse. Today, it has has become an umbrella metaphor for a whole range of practices that represent the instrumentalization, commercialization and commodification of Holocaust remembrance. The paper deals with the process of (political-economic) instrumentalization of the Holocaust, its normalization, naturalization, normativization and mechanization - in Western societies - and criticism of that process. The aim of the paper is to shed light on what is meant by the Holocaust industry and to open space for further reflection and problematization of the Holocaust discourse in the light of the warning that its current commodification and industrialization sends us.

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Some Reflections on NBC's Film Holocaust

Cited by 3 publications

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Structuring the Sacred: Media Professionalism and the Production of Mediated Holocaust Memory

Structuring the Sacred: Media Professionalism and the Production of Mediated Holocaust Memory

Making Photographs Historic: The Use of Historical Black-and-White Stills in NBC’s Fictional Miniseries Holocaust

Holocaust industry? The (American) debate on the instrumentalization of the Shoah at the turn of the century

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