Women in European Holocaust Films

First study to address the representation and discursive construction of women in European Holocaust films Provides a unique multidisciplinary perspective that contributes to European Film Studies, Holocaust Studies and Women's Studies Examines how and why the portrayal of women in European Holocaust films has changed since the end of the war Casts new light on cinema's function as a discursive intervention into cultural memory and the politics of remembrance Offers a significantly more inclusive account of Holocaust representation of women than has been attempted before

Dr Ingrid Lewis is Assistant Lecturer in Film and Theatre Studies at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland. She is author of the book chapter 'Ordinary Women' as Perpetrators in European Holocaust Films (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and has taught within the discipline of Film Studies at Universities in Croatia, Ireland and Italy.

1. Introduction.- 2. Part I     Women and the Holocaust: The Silenced Gender? 2. The Silenced Gender Paradigm.- 3   Breaking the Silence on Women Perpetrators.- 4. Idealised or Ignored: Female Victims of the Holocaust.- 5. Invisible Resistance: Women's Contribution.- 6. Part II     The Cinematic Representation of Women as Perpetrators and Accomplices of Nazism 6. Violent, Erotic, Brainwashed: Stereotypes of Female Perpetrators in Holocaust: Films between 1945 and 2000.- 7. Uneven Representations: Complex Men and Poorly Drawn Women.- 8. "Ordinary Women" as Perpetrators in 21st Century Holocaust Cinema.- 9. Part III     Female Victims in Holocaust Films: From Universalised Portrayals to Recovered Memory 9. Universalised Victims: Jewish Women in Early Holocaust Films.- 10. The Jewish Woman as Epitome of Holocaust Victimhood in the 1960s.- 11. Newcomers to Holocaust Cinema: Women in Crisis, Second Generation, Sexual Abuse and Other Victims of Persecution.- 12. The Trauma of (Post)Memory: Women's Memories in the Holocaust Cinema of the New Millennium.- 13. Part IV     Gendering Heroism: The Role of Women in Filmic Discourses About Resistance 13. Patriarchal Perspectives on Jewish Female Heroism.- 14. The Role of Heroines in Coming to Terms with the Past in Germany and France.- 15. Gendered Disparities in the Portrayal of Rescuers.- 16. Conclusion.