Women in European Holocaust Films

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Silenced Gender Paradigm

Chapter 3 Breaking the Silence on Women Perpetrators

Chapter 4 Idealised or Ignored: Female Victims of the Holocaust

Chapter 5 Invisible Resistance: Women’s Contribution

Chapter 6 Violent, Erotic, Brainwashed: Stereotypes of Female Perpetrators in Holocaust Films between 1945 and 2000

Chapter 7 Uneven Representations: Complex Men and Poorly Drawn Women

Chapter 8 “Ordinary Women” as Perpetrators in Twenty-First-Century Holocaust Cinema

Chapter 9 Universalised Victims: Jewish Women in Early Holocaust Films

Chapter 10 The Jewish Woman as the Epitome of Holocaust Victimhood in the 1960s

Chapter 11 Newcomers to Holocaust Cinema: Women in Crisis, Second Generation, Sexual Abuse and Other Victims of Persecution

Chapter 12 The Trauma of (Post)Memory: Women’s Memories in the Holocaust Cinema of the New Millennium

Chapter 13 Patriarchal Perspectives on Jewish Female Heroism

Chapter 14 The Role of Heroines in Coming to Terms with the Past in Germany and France

Chapter 15 Gendered Disparities in the Portrayal of Rescuers

Chapter 16 Conclusion