Abstract
ABSTRACT Jojo Rabbit (2019), an ‘anti-hate satire’ about a Hitler Youth member, explores autocracy and prejudice through the child’s gaze. The film subverts several Holocaust film conventions, reversing the ‘weak Jew, Gentile savior’ trope and refusing to portray Nazis as inhumanly evil to illustrate the seduction of power and the complexities of compliance and resistance during the Nazi period – and today. This article argues that the socio-political climate surrounding the film’s release created a popular media narrative of Jojo Rabbit as a metaphor for and counter-protest to the rise of nationalist extremism in America following the presidential election of Donald Trump.
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