Is Life Beautiful? Can the Shoah Be Funny? Some Thoughts on Recent and Older Films

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Previous articleNext article No AccessIs Life Beautiful? Can the Shoah Be Funny? Some Thoughts on Recent and Older FilmsSander L. GilmanSander L. Gilman Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Inquiry Volume 26, Number 2Winter, 2000 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/448967 Views: 48Total views on this site Citations: 23Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 2000 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Martin Harries S.N. Behrman, Comedy, and the Extermination of the Jews: Broadway, Christmas Eve, 1934, Modern Drama 64, no.44 (Dec 2021): 393–418.https://doi.org/10.3138/md.64-4-1188Daniel H. Magilow The era of the expert: dementia, remembrance, and jurisprudence in Atom Egoyan’s Remember (2015), Holocaust Studies 27, no.22 (Aug 2019): 218–234.https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2019.1637494Alon Lazar, Tal Litvak Hirsch Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful: Perspectives of North American Non-Professional Online Movie Reviewers, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2019).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3373624Jon Stratton Haunted by the Holocaust: Hogan’s Heroes, The Producers, Fiddler on the Roof, Journal for Cultural Research 22, no.33 (Sep 2018): 239–261.https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2018.1517235Aída Díaz Bild Kalooki Nights or the sacred duty to remember the Holocaust, Holocaust Studies 24, no.33 (Oct 2017): 265–286.https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2017.1387844Michalinos Zembylas Holocaust Laughter and Edgar Hilsenrath’s The Nazi and the Barber: Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Laughter and Humor in Holocaust Education, Studies in Philosophy and Education 37, no.33 (Feb 2018): 301–313.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-018-9599-2Susanne Rohr Subversion und Sentiment, (Aug 2018): 109–126.https://doi.org/10.7788/9783412504892-006Deb Waterhouse-Watson, Adam Brown Mothers, Monsters, Heroes and Whores: Reinscribing Patriarchy in European Holocaust Films, Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust 30, no.22 (Apr 2016): 142–157.https://doi.org/10.1080/23256249.2016.1166592Amy Shuman Story Ownership and Entitlement, (Apr 2015): 38–56.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118458204.ch2Eyal Zandberg “ Ketchup Is the Auschwitz of Tomatoes ”: Humor and the Collective Memory of Traumatic Events, Communication, Culture & Critique 8, no.11 (Oct 2014): 108–123.https://doi.org/10.1111/cccr.12072Jill Suzanne Smith REVIVING GERMAN-JEWISH COMEDY: DANI LEVY'S FAMILY FARCE GO FOR ZUCKER!, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 13, no.22 (Jul 2014): 231–248.https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2014.918716Ofer Ashkenazi The future of history as film: apropos the publication of A Companion to Historical Film, Rethinking History 18, no.22 (Aug 2013): 289–303.https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2013.814289Carolina Rocha Children’s Views of State-Sponsored Violence in Latin America, (Jan 2012): 83–100.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137030870_5Valentina Glajar Framing the Silence: The Romanian Jewish and Romani Holocaust in Filmic Representations, (Jan 2011): 225–249.https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118416_13Ellen Nerenberg Mind the Gap, (Jan 2011): 171–194.https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119673_13 , (Sep 2012): 243–281.https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050053585.bm By Reid Miller A Lesson in Moral Spectatorship Reid Miller, Critical Inquiry 34, no.44 (Jul 2015): 706–728.https://doi.org/10.1086/592541Eyal Zandberg Critical laughter: humor, popular culture and Israeli Holocaust commemoration, Media, Culture & Society 28, no.44 (Jul 2006): 561–579.https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443706065029 Reviews, The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 81, no.33 (May 2006): 271–288.https://doi.org/10.3200/GERR.81.3.271-288Richard Burt Shakespeare and the Holocaust, (Jan 2002): 295–329.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09277-9_14Franziska Meyer ‚Die Amerikaner Haben uns Unsere Geschichte Weggenommen‘: Frank Beyers und Peter Kassovitz’ Jakob der Lügner, (Jan 2002): 214–251.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-02904-1_12Ernst Van Alphen Toys and Affect: Identifying with the Perpetrator in Contemporary Holocaust Art, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 3, no.11 (May 2015): 158–190.https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2002.11432710Ruth Liberman Playing the Holocaust, (Jan 2001): 2661–2670.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-66019-3_189