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1. Beyond the Witness : Holocaust Representations and the Testimony of Images
Sammanfattning : In a time when the very last Holocaust witnesses will soon be gone, a possible route for commemoration is to ask what testimony images can give. This book seeks to answer the question of how images can bear witness by examining them as multifaceted entities produced, reproduced, and resituated in conflicting political and historical situations. LÄS MER
2. The Quest for Recognition : The Holocaust and French Historical Culture, 1945–65
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the development of Holocaust remembrance in France, taking the activities of the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine in Paris as its focus. By looking at the construction, function, and reception of Holocaust narratives in the twenty years following the end of the War, it shows how remembrance took shape within French historical culture, and, conversely, how representations of the genocide influenced France’s national-historical culture. LÄS MER
3. Ett främmande element i nationen : Svensk flyktingpolitik och de judiska flyktingarna 1938−1944
Sammanfattning : The aim is to increase our understanding of the mechanisms of social categorization and discrimination, as well as the connection between them. This has been accomplished by examining Swedish refugee policy towards Jewish refugees during the Second World War and the Holocaust, as conducted by The Foreigner’s Bureau of the National Board of Health and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during 1938−1944. LÄS MER
4. "Chorus of the Saved" : Constructing the Holocaust Survivor in Swedish Public Discourse, 1943-1966
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation I examine how the Holocaust survivor has been constructed in Swedish public discourse during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. This is done using a Foucauldian-inspired genealogical method through which an eclectic collection of sources—newsreels, films, radio programs, television programs and newspaper articles—is analyzed. LÄS MER
5. Att projicera det förflutna : Historiebruk och historieförmedling i svensk skolfilm 1970–2000 utifrån de regionala AV-centralernas utbud
Sammanfattning : Karlsson, Martin; Att projicera det förflutna. Historiebruk och historieförmedling i svensk skolfilm 1970–2000 utifrån de regionala AV-centralernas utbud [Projecting the past: Use and mediation of history in Swedish educational films 1970-2000] Department of Humanities, Mid Sweden University, SE-871 88 Härnösand, SwedenISBN 978-91-974902-8-8Swedish text with a summary in English This dissertation analyses a significant element of Swedish historical culture, namely how history was used, communicated and (re)constructed in films with historical themes, available to Swedish schools from 1970 to 2000. LÄS MER