Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020: Irreverent Remembrance (Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict)

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey Demsky

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 150
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyzes sensationalized Nazi and Holocaust representations in Anglo-American cultural and political discourses. Recognizing that this history is increasingly removed from contemporary life, it explains how irreverent representations can help rejuvenate the story for successive generations of new learners. Surveying seventy-five-years of transatlantic activities, the work erects counterposing categorizes of “constructive and destructive memorializing,” providing scholars with a new framework for elucidating both this history and its historicization.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Praise for Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Nuremberg Narrative: Fashioning Anglo-American Holocaust Memorialization
Fashioning British Holocaust Memorialization
Fashioning American Holocaust Memorialization
Chapter 3: The Americanization of the Holocaust: Expressions of Cultural and Political Memorialization
Cultural Post-Memory Expressions
Political Post-Memory Expressions
Chapter 4: Why All the Swastikas?: UK Rock Stars’ Nazi/Holocaust Encounters, 1960s–1980s
Generational Nazi/Holocaust Encounters
Political Nazi/Holocaust Encounters
Hateful Nazi/Holocaust Encounters
Chapter 5: No Soup For You!: Responsible and Irresponsible Holocaust Humor on American Sitcoms
Responsible Holocaust Humor on American Sitcoms
Irresponsible Humor on American Sitcoms
Chapter 6: Irreverent Instruction: Considering New Approaches in Twenty-First-Century European and American Holocaust Education
Irreverent Instruction for Twenty-First-Century European Students
Irreverent Instruction for Twenty-First-Century American Students
Chapter 7: That Is Really Meme: Nazi Pepe the Frog and the Subversion of Anglo-American Holocaust Remembrance
Nazifying Pepe the Frog
Subverting American Holocaust Remembrance
Subverting British Holocaust Remembrance
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Mediating Expressions of Constructive and Destructive Memorializing
Index